dc.contributor.author | Feistel, R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Wielgosz, R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Bell, S.A. | |
dc.contributor.author | Camões, M. F. | |
dc.contributor.author | Cooper, J. R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Dexter, P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Dickson, A. G. | |
dc.contributor.author | Fisicaro, P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Harvey, A. H. | |
dc.contributor.author | Heinonen, M. | |
dc.contributor.author | Hellmuth, O. | |
dc.contributor.author | Kretzschmar, H. J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Lovell-Smith, J. W. | |
dc.contributor.author | McDougall, T. J. | |
dc.contributor.author | Pawlowicz, R. | |
dc.contributor.author | Ridout, P., | |
dc.contributor.author | Seitz, S. | |
dc.contributor.author | Spitzer, P. | |
dc.contributor.author | Stoica, D. | |
dc.contributor.author | Wolf, H. | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2019-03-07T13:29:46Z | |
dc.date.available | 2019-03-07T13:29:46Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2016 | |
dc.identifier.citation | Feistel, R., Wielgosz, R., Bell, S. A., Camões, M. F., Cooper, J. R., Dexter, P., Dickson, A. G., Fisicaro, P., Harvey, A. H., Heinonen, M., Hellmuth, O., Kretzschmar, H. J., Lovell-Smith, J. W., McDougall, T. J., Pawlowicz, R., Ridout, P., Seitz, S., Spitzer, P., Stoica, D. and Wolf, H. (2015) Metrological challenges for measurements of key climatological observables: Oceanic salinity and pH, and atmospheric humidity. Part 1: Overview. Metrologia, 53(1),pp. R1-R11. DOI:10.1088/0026-1394/53/1/R1 | en_US |
dc.identifier.uri | http://hdl.handle.net/11329/871 | |
dc.identifier.uri | http://dx.doi.org/10.25607/OBP-418 | |
dc.description.abstract | Water in its three ambient phases plays the central thermodynamic role in the terrestrial climate
system. Clouds control Earth’s radiation balance, atmospheric water vapour is the strongest
“greenhouse” gas, and non-equilibrium relative humidity at the air-sea interface drives
evaporation and latent heat export from the ocean. On climatic time scales, melting ice caps and
regional deviations of the hydrological cycle result in changes of seawater salinity, which in turn
may modify the global circulation of the oceans and their ability to store heat and to buffer
anthropogenically produced carbon dioxide. In this paper, together with three companion articles,
we examine the climatologically relevant quantities ocean salinity, seawater pH and atmospheric
relative humidity, noting fundamental deficiencies in the definitions of those key observables, and
their lack of secure foundation on the International System of Units, the SI. The metrological
histories of those three quantities are reviewed, problems with their current definitions and
measurement practices are analysed, and options for future improvements are discussed in
conjunction with the recent seawater standard TEOS-10. It is concluded that the International
Bureau of Weights and Measures, BIPM, in cooperation with the International Association for the
Properties of Water and Steam, IAPWS, along with other international organisations and
institutions, can make significant contributions by developing and recommending state-of-the-art
solutions for these long standing metrological problems in climatology. | en_US |
dc.language.iso | en | en_US |
dc.subject.other | pH | en_US |
dc.title | Metrological challenges for measurements of key climatological observables: Oceanic salinity and pH, and atmospheric humidity. Part 1: Overview. | en_US |
dc.type | Journal Contribution | en_US |
dc.description.refereed | Refereed | en_US |
dc.format.pagerange | pp R1-R11. | en_US |
dc.identifier.doi | 10.1088/0026-1394/53/1/R1 | |
dc.subject.parameterDiscipline | Parameter Discipline::Chemical oceanography | en_US |
dc.subject.parameterDiscipline | Parameter Discipline::Atmosphere | en_US |
dc.bibliographicCitation.title | Metrologia | en_US |
dc.bibliographicCitation.volume | 53 | en_US |
dc.bibliographicCitation.issue | 1 | en_US |
dc.description.sdg | 14.A | en_US |
dc.description.eov | Sea surface salinity | en_US |
dc.description.bptype | Standard Operating Procedure | en_US |
dc.description.bptype | Guide | en_US |
obps.resourceurl.publisher | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4759657/ | en_US |