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Once they enter into the marine system, trace metals are removed from surface water by internal fluxes such as sedimentation on biogenic or terrigenic particles, diffusive exchange of dissolved species across interfaces, or advective vertical transport. 

Lagrangian trajectory models can be viewed as foUowing a column of air as it is advected in the air basin at the local wind velocity. Simultaneously, the model describes the vertical diffusion of poUutants, deposition, and emissions into the air parcel as shown in Eigure 4. The underlying equation being solved is a simplification of equation 5 ... 

The Gaussian Plume Model is the most well-known and simplest scheme to estimate atmospheric dispersion. This is a mathematical model which has been formulated on the assumption that horizontal advection is balanced by vertical and transverse turbulent diffusion and terms arising from creation of depletion of species i by various internal sources or sinks. In the wind-oriented coordinate system, the conservation of species mass equation takes the following form ... 

POC/ Th (mol C/dpm is the ratio on sinking particles and is the decay constant of " Th (0.029 d ). This approach makes no assumptions about residence times, although it implicitly assumes that sinking biogenic particles are the principal carriers of " Th atoms, that the POC/ Th ratio on sinking particles can be measured, that steady state applies and that horizontal and vertical transport of " Th via advection of water are negligible. 

Over recent years, increased computational power and improved efficiency have allowed significant developments and improvements to be applied to climate models [19], including the improved representation of dynamical processes such as advection [20] and an increase in the horizontal and vertical resolution of models. It has also enabled additional processes to be incorporated in models, particularly the coupling of the atmospheric and ocean components of models, the modelling of aerosols and of land surface and sea ice processes. The parame-terisations of physical processes have also been improved. 

In the second model, the distribution and removal rates of tracers in the ocean are characterized through a one dimensional, (vertical) diffusion-advection equation. In this model, which ignores all horizontal processes, the equation governing the distribution of tracer in the soluble phase is [51,52,53,54] ... 

The transport of heavy metals in the atmosphere is described by means of a monotone version of Bott s advection scheme. Pressure-based s-coordinate in the vertical makes possible to take into account an effect of the underlying surface elevation. Vertical eddy... 

The advection scheme of the regional model is improved to take into account the surface orography. Terrain following vertical structure of the model domain with higher resolution was incorporated. Wet removal of heavy metals from the atmosphere was enhanced by developing newparameterizations of precipitation scavenging. Both in-cloud and sub-cloud wet removal were modified on the basis of the up-to-date scientific literature data. 

In order to make the transport model adaptable to measurement results some simplifications are used. Vertical and lateral components of wind are neglible, the mean transport velocity U in x-direction is steady the pollutant transfer by advection in the drift direction is greater than by turbulent diffusion at the ground total reflection is assumed. For the case that the concentration at any point in space is independent of t and that the diffusivities are independent of x, y and z the simplified diffusion equation of the K-therory /8/ becomes... 

Turbulence and advection can lead to the mixing of adjacent water masses (or types). These water motions create horizontal and vertical gradients in temperature and salinity. As illustrated in Figures 4.17a and 4.17b, vertical mixing at the boundary between two water types produces waters of intermediate temperature and salinity. Since mixing does not alter the ratios of the conservative ions, the water in the mixing zone acquires a salinity intermediate between that of the two water types. The salinity of... 

This model was first applied to dissolved oxygen gas (O2) profiles to estimate the rate of aerobic respiration. This biological process is responsible fiar the presence of a pronounced mid-depth O2 concentration minimum in the mid- and low latitudes throughout all the ocean basins. The concentration minimum in the Atlantic can be seen in Figure 4.l4e. The solution to Eq. 4.14, in the presence of an upward vertical advection, is... 

Reaction rates of nonconservative chemicals in marine sediments can be estimated from porewater concentration profiles using a mathematical model similar to the onedimensional advection-diffusion model for the water column presented in Section 4.3.4. As with the water column, horizontal concentration gradients are assumed to be negligible as compared to the vertical gradients. In contrast to the water column, solute transport in the pore waters is controlled by molecular diffusion and advection, with the effects of turbulent mixing being negligible. 

These solutions to the one-dimensional advection-diffusion model can be used to estimate reaction rate constants Ck) from the pore-water concentrations of S, if and s are known. More sophisticated approaches have been used to define the reaction rate term as the sum of multiple removals and additions whose functionalities are not necessarily first-order. Information on the reaction kinetics is empirically obtained by determining which algorithmic representation of the rate law best fits the vertical depth concentration data. The best-fit rate law can then be used to provide some insight into potential... 

As we saw with the steady-state water-column application of the one-dimensional advection-diffusion-reaction equation (Eq. 4.14), the basic shapes of the vertical concentration profiles can be predicted from the relative rates of the chemical and physical processes. Figure 4.21 provided examples of profiles that exhibit curvatures whose shapes reflected differences in the direction and relative rates of these processes. Some generalized scenarios for sedimentary pore water profiles are presented in Figure 12.7 for the most commonly observed shapes. 

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