Can Empirical Algorithms Successfully Estimate Aragonite Saturation State in the Subpolar North Atlantic?
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1 Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, 2 Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY, United States, 3 Department of Mathematics and Statistics, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada, 4 Uni Research Klima, Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, 5 Geophysical Institute, University of Bergen and Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research, Bergen, Norway, 6 Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La Jolla, CA, United States, 7 Departamento de Oceanografía, Instituto de Investigaciones Marinas (CSIC), Vigo, Spain
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