CITATION Brewer, P.G., and A.F. Hofmann. 2014. A plea for temperature in descriptions of the oceanic oxygen status. Oceanography 27(1):160–167, http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.19. DOI http://dx.doi.org/10.5670/oceanog.2014.19 COPYRIGHT Tis article has been published in Oceanography, Volume 27, Number 1, a quarterly journal of Te Oceanography Society. Copyright 2014 by Te Oceanography Society. All rights reserved. USAGE Permission is granted to copy this article for use in teaching and research. Republication, systematic reproduction, or collective redistribution of any portion of this article by photocopy machine, reposting, or other means is permitted only with the approval of Te Oceanography Society. Send all correspondence to: info@tos.org or Te Oceanography Society, PO Box 1931, Rockville, MD 20849-1931, USA. O ceanography THE OFFICIAL MAGAZINE OF THE OCEANOGRAPHY SOCIETY DOWNLOADED FROM HTTP://WWW.TOS.ORG/OCEANOGRAPHY