The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling
This book arises from a NATO-sponsored Advanced Study Institute on 'The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling' held at Bombann@§. near Bordeaux, France. from 16 to 27 September 1985. The chapters of the book are the written versions of the lectures given at the Institute. The aim...
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Springer Netherlands
1986, 1986
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Edition: | 1st ed. 1986 |
Series: | Nato Science Series C:, Mathematical and Physical Sciences
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Table of Contents:
- Modeling Oceanic Transport of Dissolved Constituents
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Box Models
- 3. Advection-Diffusion Models
- 4. Equations of Motion
- 5. Conclusion
- Vertical Transport of Particles within the Ocean
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Determination of the Lognormal Coefficients L, ? and of N
- 2.1. Particle size data collection
- 2.2. Calculation of the coefficients L, ? and N from data
- 3. Determination of Suspended Particulate Matter Physical Properties using Lognormal coefficients
- 3.1. Surface area concentration
- 3.2. Mass concentration
- 3.3. Vertical fluxes
- 3.4. Residence time
- 3.5. Application to the open sea
- 4. Suspended Particulate Matter Sedimentation with Dissolution Process
- 4.1. Sedimentation at steady state
- 4.2. Sedimentation at non steady state
- 5. Conclusion
- 6. Appendix
- 6.1. Specific properties of the lognormallaw
- 6.2. Evaluation of the lognormal coefficients
- Air-Sea Gas Exchange Rates: Introduction and Synthesis
- 4. Accurate Deposition Measurements do not Guarantee Accurate Net Air to Sea Transfer Rates
- 5. Relative Importance of Wet and Dry Removal Rates
- 6. Conclusion
- Atmospheric, Oceanic, and Interfacial Photochemistry as Factors Influencing Air-Sea Exchange Fluxes and Processes
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Environmental Photochemistry
- 2.1. Stratospheric photochemistry
- 2.2. Homogeneous tropospheric photochemistry
- 2.3. Heterogeneous tropospheric photochemistry
- 2.4. Seawater photochemistry
- 2.5. Soil photochemistry
- 3. Interaction of Photochemistry with Air-Sea Exchange Processes
- 3.1. Air-sea gas exchange
- 3.2. Rainout-washout deposition processes
- 3.3. Dry deposition
- 3.4. Marineaerosol generation
- 4. Summary
- Carbon Dioxide: Its Natural Cycle and Anthropogenic Perturbation
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Natural Cycle of Carbon Dioxide
- 2.1. Reservoirs, fluxes, residence times
- 2.2. Air-sea exchange of CO2
- 2.3. Regional variability of air-sea fluxes
- 2.1. Physical and chemical forms of metals in the atmosphere
- 2.2. Biogeochemical cycling of trace metals in the ocean
- 3. Geographical Variability of Metal Fluxes from the Atmosphere to t
- 4.1. Total gaseous Hg
- 4.2. Volatile Hg species
- 5. Hg Analysis in Seawater and Rainwater
- 5.1. Reactive and Total Hg
- 5.2. Volatile Hg
- 5.3. Determinations of Hg in rain
- 6. Air-Sea Exchange of Hg
- 6.1. Preliminary studies
- 6.2. Present status
- 6.3. Summary
- 7. Ocean Sources of Hg
- 7.1. Hg evasion from the Equatorial Pacific Ocean: 1980
- 7.2. Hg evasion from the Equatorial Pacific Ocean: 1984
- 8. Hg Deposition to the Sea Surface
- 8.1. Precipitation
- 8.2. Dry depositional Hg flux to the Equatorial Pacific Ocean
- 8.3. Air-sea exchange in the Equatorial Pacific Ocean
- 8.4. Physico-chemical aspects
- 9. Atmospheric Cycling of Hg over the Oceans: Global Perspectives
- The Air-Sea Exchange of Particulate Organic Matter: The Sources and Long-Range Transport of Lipids in Aerosols
- 1. Introduction
- 1.1. Background
- 2. Sampling and Analytical Methodology
- 3. Source and Long-Range Transport Studies
- 3.1. Introduction
- 2.4. Marine carbonate chemistry
- 2.5. The oceanic carbon cycle
- 2.6. The cycle of oxygen
- 3. Anthropogenic Increase of Atmospheric CO2
- 3.1. Observations and airborne fraction
- 3.2. Modelling the oceanic response to carbon cycle perturbations
- 3.3. CO2 release from the terrestrial biosphere and the “missing CO2 sink”
- 3.4. Scenarios for future CO2 concentrations
- 3.5. Carbone isotope perturbations
- 4. Climatic Effects of CO2 Increase
- 5. Natural CO2 Variations
- 5.1. Seasonal variations
- 5.2. Correlation with El Ni?o
- 5.3. Glacial/interglacial changes
- CO2 Air-Sea Exchange during Glacial Times: Importance of Deep Sea Circulation Changes
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Evidence from Polar Ice Cores
- 2.1. Data
- 2.2. Discussion: is the ocean able to absorb the missing CO2?
- 3. Evidence from Deep Sea Sediments
- 3.1. Data
- 3.2. Various hypotheses explaining the sedimentary record
- 3.3. Cadmium as a proxy-indicator for past phosphate
- 3.2. North Pacific Trades: Enewetak
- 3.3. South Pacific Westerlies: New Zealand
- 3.4. Short-Range transport: Coastal Peru
- 4. Conclusions
- The Marine Mineral Aerosol
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Concept of the Marine Dust Veil
- 3. Sources of Material to the Marine Atmosphere
- 4. The Distribution of Material in the Marine Dust Veil
- 4.1.Introduction
- 4.2. The Atlantic Ocean and surrounding waters
- 4.3. The Mediterranean
- 4.4. The Pacific ocean
- 4.5. The Indian ocean
- 4.6. Summary
- 5. The Composition of Material in the Marine Dust Veil
- 5.1. Introduction
- 5.2. The mineral composition of the marine dust veil
- 5.3. Chemical chacacteristics of the mineral aerosol
- 6. The Influence of the Marine Dust Veil on Oceanic Cycles
- 6.1. The water column
- 6.2. The sediment column
- 6.3. Summary
- Air to Sea Transfer of Anthropogenic Trace Metals
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The Fate of Atmospheric Trace Metals in Ocean Waters
- Basic Concepts In Geochemical Modelling
- 1. Introduction
- 2.First Order Models
- 2.1. First order decay reaction
- 2.2. Instantaneous perturbation in a first order decay model
- 2.3. First order production model
- 3. Heterogeneous Catalysis and Enzymatic Type Reactions
- 4. Reversible Reactions
- 5. Model with Coupled Components in the Reservoir
- 6. Second Order Reactions
- 7. Periodic Fluctuations
- 8. Coupling of Reservoirs
- 9. Conclusions
- Atmospheric Pathways to the Oceans
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Atmospheric Structure and Transports
- 2.1. Boundary layer
- 2.2. Cloud scale transport
- 2.3. Storms and midlatitude circulation
- 2.4. Global scale exchange
- 3. Variability and Representativeness
- 3.1. Seasonal and interannual variability
- 3.2. Representativeness of observations
- 4. Modeling of Atmospheric Transport
- 4.1. Source identification models
- 4.2. Mechanistic models
- 4.3. Tropospheric chemistry system models
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Basic Principles
- 3. Models
- 3.1. Film model
- 3.2. Surface renewal models
- 3.3. Boundary-layer models
- 4. Laboratory (Wind Tunnel) Studies
- 4.1. Smooth surface regime
- 4.2. Rough surface regime
- 4.3. Breaking wave (bubble) regime
- 5. Field Measurements
- 5.1. Box method
- 5.2. Dissolved gas balance method
- 5.3. Micrometeorological techniques
- 5.4. Natural and bomb-produced 14C
- 5.5. The radon deficiency method
- 5.6. Sulphur hexafluoride
- 5.7. Summary
- 6. Synthesis
- 6.1. Comparison with field data
- The Ocean as a Source for Atmospheric Particles
- 1. Introduction
- 2. The ? ?E/?r Model
- 3. The ? ?2E/?t ?r Model
- 4. Comparison of ? ?E/?r and W ?2E/?t ?r Models
- 5. Oceanic Whitecap Coverage
- 6. Global Sea-to-Air Salt Flux
- 7. Toward a Comprehensive Marine Aerosol Generation Model
- The Ocean as a Sink for Atmospheric Particles
- 1. Overview
- 2. Assessement of Wet Deposition
- 3. Field Approach to Dry Deposition
- 2. Gases for which the Oceans are a net Source for the Atmosphere
- 2.1. Alkyl (mainly Methyl) halides
- 2.2. Haloforms
- 2.3. Other organo-halides
- 3. Gases for which the Oceans are a net Sink for the Atmosphere
- 4. Summary
- Sea-Air Exchange of High-Molecular Weight Synthetic Organic Compounds
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Compounds of Interest
- 3. Sampling/Analytical Aspects of Trace Organics
- 4. Distribution of High Molecular Weight Organics in the Marine Environment
- 4.1. Water and organisms
- 4.2. Atmospheric concentrations
- 4.3. Atmospheric deposition
- 5. Air-Sea Exchange Mechanisms for Synthetic Organics
- 5.1. Dry deposition
- 5.2. Wet deposition
- 5.3. Adsorption and partitioning in surface waters
- 6. Air-Sea Fluxes in the North Pacific
- 7. Relative Importance of Atmospheric Deposition to the CHC Cycle
- 8. Summary and Conclusions
- The Ocean as a Source of Atmospheric Sulfur Compounds
- 1. Sources of Sulfur to the Atmosphere: an Overview
- 4. Broecker’s two box Model for the CO2 Cycle
- 5. Evidence for Deep Water Circulation during the Last Climatic Cycle
- 5.1. Geochemical basis
- 5.2. Glacial to interglacial contrasts
- 5.3. Disappearance of North Atlantic Deep Water during the glacial to interglacial transition
- 5.4. Enhanced North Atlantic Deep Wafer formation during the inception of the glaciation
- 6. Conclusion
- Exchange of CO and H2 between Ocean And Atmosphere
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Determination of the Supersaturation Factors of CO and H2
- 3. Spatial and Temporal Changes ofdissolved CO and H2
- 4. Processes Sustaining CO and H2 Concentrations in Surface Water
- 4.1. Production processes
- 4.2. Consumption processes
- 4.3. Transport processes
- 5. Calculation of Fluxes by the “Laminar Film Model”
- 6. Role of Oceans in the budget of atmospheric CO and H2
- The Air-Sea Exchange of Low Molecular Weight Halocarbon Gases
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Seaspray and the Production of Aerosol Sulfate
- 3. Sulfate Reduction by Geological and Biological Processes
- 4. Assimilatory Sulfate Reduction
- 5. Biosynthesis of Dimethylsulfide
- 6. Marine Chemistry and Distribution of Dimethylsulfide
- 7. Estimating the Air/Sea Flux of Dimethylsulfide
- 8. Chemical Reactions and Transformations of Dimethylsulfide in the Marine Atmosphere
- 9. A Model of the Cycle of Biogenic Sulfur over the Oceans
- 10. CarbonylSulfide
- 10.1. Photochemical production of COS
- 10.2. Air/Sea exchange of COS
- 11. Formation and Emission of other Sulfur Species: Hydrogen Sulfide, Carbon Disulfide, Methylmercaptan, Dimethyldisulfide etc…
- 11.1. Hydrogen sulfide
- 11.2. Carbon disulfide
- 11.3. Methylmercaptan, dimethyldisulfide and other sulfur compounds
- 12. Conclusion
- Cycling of Mercury Between the Atmosphere and Oceans
- 1. Introduction
- 2. Global Models
- 3. Physico-Chemical Models
- 4. Atmospheric Hg Determinations