Auxiliary material for Paper 2010GB004009 Impacts of temporal CO2 and climate trends on the detection of ocean anthropogenic CO2 accumulation Nathalie F. Goodkin Department of Earth Sciences, University of Hong Kong, Hong Kong, China Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA Naomi M. Levine Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA Department of Organismic and Evolutionary Biology, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts, USA Scott C. Doney Department of Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Woods Hole, Massachusetts, USA Rik Wanninkhof Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory, NOAA, Miami, Florida, USA Goodkin, N. F., N. M. Levine, S. C. Doney, and R. Wanninkhof (2011), Impacts of temporal CO2 and climate trends on the detection of ocean anthropogenic CO2 accumulation, Global Biogeochem. Cycles, 25, GB3023, doi:10.1029/2010GB004009. Introduction The supplementary material includes a description of the multiple water mass calculation, one supplemental table, and six supplemental figures. 2010gb004009-txts01.pdf Text containing a description of the multiple water mass eMLR calculation and results. 2010gb004009-ts01.pdf Table S1: Cross-­correlation (r) for biogeochemical and physical parameters used in the eMLR. 2010gb004009-fs01.pdf Figure S1: Transient-no feedback MLR residual (μmol kg-1) for the ocean P16S transect. 2010gb004009-fs02.pdf Figure S2: Control MLR residual (μmol kg-1) for the ocean P16S transect. 2010gb004009-fs03.pdf Figure S3: Comparison between MLR DIC residuals (μmol/ kg) along P16S (150°W) for an MLR applied to the whole water column and an MLR applied to two alkalinity defined water masses. 2010gb004009-fs04.pdf Figure S4: Average percentage of grid points used in each longitudinal band for the percentage error analysis. 2010gb004009-fs05.pdf Figure S5: Comparison between error estimate for delta Canthro (eMLR) for an MLR applied to the whole water column and an MLR applied to two alkalinity defined water masses. 2010gb004009-fs06.pdf Figure S6: Error estimate for the eMLR using monthly model output (January) along the P16S transect.