In the large negative hydrogen ion source at NIFS, various types of diagnostics are available for measuring negative
hydrogen ion density, electron density, and other quantities.
The instruments measure atmospheric
densities and temperatures for both the electrically neutral (e.g., carbon dioxide, CO2, atomic oxygen, O, atomic
hydrogen, H, and other species) and the electrically charged constituents (that is,
ions such as CO2 + and O2 +, and electrons).
Rhe fact that acidification remains a surface water problom suggests to me that the increase in
hydrogen ions resuts in a slight lowering of sea water
density, otherwise normal mixing would prevent it.