Description:
Ne concentration in umol/kg determined by combining mass spectrometric Ne/Ar ratio measurements with absolute Ar concentrations by Ar isotope dilution with 38Ar. As discussed in the paper: the Ne method uses a helium balance gas but is otherwise similar to that of Hamme and Severinghaus (2007) "Trace gas disequilibria during deep-water formation" Deep Sea Research I: 54(6):939-950. Standard gases are calibrated relative to air with assumed dry mole fractions of 1.818e-5 for Ne.