Calculate total alkalinity (TA) based on the Gran approximation using the outputs of TitroLine7000 (automatic titrator).
This script was created in December 2019 by me and used in multiple occasions by my colleagues in our working group. The code can be improved, therefore consider this as a work in progress!
TA is a very useful parameter to understand and study reef-building coral physiology. Specifically it is used to 1) characterize the seawater chemistry and 2) to estimate rates of calcification based on alkalinity anomaly (AA - as the difference in TA before and after an incubation). For these reasons, I believe (and hope) that this script can be useful to other people in the field. I will also try to provide further documentation and references necessary to better understand the chemical and mathematical underlyings of the calculations.