Water Resources of the United States
DOTABLES
Dissolved oxygen saturation tables
Information
- The DOTABLES program can be utilized on-line from this web
page to generate tables of dissolved oxygen (DO) saturation
values and (or) salinity correction factors over ranges of
temperature, pressure, and specific conductance.
Version history
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U.S. Geological Survey printed documentation
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Software
DOTABLES is executed from this page by specifying the type of
table to be displayed and the input parameters to be used and
then selecting "Display table" below.
Table type and temperature range options:
Documentation
-
Weiss, R.F., 1970, The solubility of nitrogen, oxygen,
and argon in water and seawater: Deep Sea Research, v. 17,
no. 4, p. 721-735
USGS methods for determining dissolved oxygen
concentrations are documented in:
Radtke,
D.B., White, A.F., Davis, J.V., and Wilde, F.D., 1998,
National field manual for the collection of water-quality
data--dissolved oxygen: U.S. Geological Survey Techniques of
Water-Resources Investigations, book 9, chap. A6, sect. 6.2
[variously paged]
Point of contact for DOTABLES:
U.S. Geological Survey
Hydrologic Analysis Software Support Program
437 National Center
Reston, VA 20192
(electronic mail: h2osoft@usgs.gov)