Articles | Volume 18, issue 20
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-7275-2025
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-18-7275-2025
Development and technical paper
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15 Oct 2025
Development and technical paper |  | 15 Oct 2025

PyESPERv1.0.0: a Python implementation of empirical seawater property estimation routines (ESPERs)

Larissa M. Dias and Brendan R. Carter

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The increasing availability of oceanographic physical and chemical data necessitates accompanying methods for optimizing use of these data. This project produced algorithms (PyESPERs) for estimating biogeochemical seawater properties in Python, a freely available coding language. These algorithms were based on empirical seawater property estimation routines (ESPERs), which were originally written in the proprietary MATLAB coding language and can be used in studies of marine carbonate chemistry.
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