Oceanic Carbon Dioxide
Quality Control

Andrew G. Dickson
Scripps Institution of Oceanography

(Primarily funded by the US National Science Foundation
through the following awards: NSF 8800474; NSF 9207265;
NSF 9521976; NSF 9819007; NSF 0137287; NSF 0622379)

C02 Quality Control

Most recent batch
Batch 93 certified for total dissolved inorganic carbon and total alkalinity, February 18, 2009.

Reference materials

Certified reference materials (based on natural sea water) are available routinely for total dissolved inorganic carbon and for total alkalinity.

Work is in progress to certify these materials for the carbon-13 content of the total dissolved inorganic carbon.

Prototype reference materials are available in limited quantities for pH. These are based on Tris buffers in synthetic sea water.

If you are interested in obtaining any of these materials, please contact us at co2crms@ucsd.edu

DOE Handbook

The 1994 DOE Handbook of Methods for the Analysis of the Parameters of the Oceanic Carbon Dioxide System (A. G. Dickson & C. Goyet, editors) is still available from this web-site in PDF format (updated to correct known mistakes).

This Handbook has now been revised as a joint project between PICES and IOCCP, and is available from CDIAC.

Contact numbers

Phone: 1-858-534-2582
Fax: 1-858-822-2919

Mailing address

Marine Physical Laboratory
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
University of California, San Diego
9500 Gilman Drive
La Jolla, CA 92093-0244, USA

Shipping address
(for return of bottles, etc.)

Marine Physical Laboratory
Scripps Institution of Oceanography
7110 Via Capri
La Jolla, CA 92037, USA