Acknowledgments. We thank all individuals who contributed to
the global alkalinity data set, including the chief scientists. This work was
financially supported by the National Research Laboratory Program of the
Korea Science and Engineering Foundation. Partial support was provided by
the AEBRC at the POSTECH, the Korea Aerospace Research Institute, the
MOEHRD (KRF-2005-070-C00143), the Korea Science and Engineering
Foundation (R01-2002-000-00549-0, 2004), and NOAA’s Office of Climate
Observation; PMEL contribution 2938