Measuring and Modeling Air-sea Exchange of Carbon Dioxide
conference paper
Air-sea exchange of slowly dissolving gases is mostly estimated by means of the transfer-velocity relations based on the Liss and Merlivat, and the Wanninkhof studies, that offer integration of many data sets, and seems satisfactory integration of these data, although with substantial scatter (Maclntyre et al, 1995). However the small transfer rates implied by these relations indicate that in the natural environment fluxes and concentrations will often not be in the equilibrium, implicitly assumed when employing the transfer velocity relations. Such non-equilibrium between flux and concentrations most likely to occur coastal areas and/or in areas with strong biological activity, where rapid changes over space and time may occur in both the water and air concentrations of the trace gas species considered.
TNO Identifier
95245
Publisher
Office for Official Publications of the European Communities
Source title
Conference Proceedings - Greenhouse gases and their role in climate change: the status of research in Europe - International workshop, Orvieto, Italy, 10 to 13 November 1997
Editor(s)
Valentini, R.
Bruning, C.
Bruning, C.
Place of publication
Luxembourg
Pages
113-116
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