Present pH value in oceans

Range 7.9 - 8.4 unitless
Organism Biosphere
Reference Duursma EK, Boisson MPRM, Global oceanic and atmospheric oxygen stability considered in relation to the carbon-cycle and to different time scales. Oceanologica Acta (0399-1784) (Gauthier-Villars), 1994 , Vol. 17 , N. 2 , P. 117-141 link p.126 left column top paragraph
Primary Source Skirrow G. (1965). The dissolved gases-carbon dioxide, in: Chemical Oceanography, 1st edition, J.P. Riley and G. Skirrow, editors. Academie Press, London, UK, vol. 1. 227-322.
Comments P.126 left column top paragraph: "For the present oceans the pH is ranging from 7.9 to 8.4 (primary source)."
Entered by Uri M
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