Air-sea gas exchange rate

Liss, P. S., and L. Merlivat, Eds., Air-Sea Gas Exchange Rates Introduction and Sythesis, The Role of Air-sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling, D. Reidel Publishing, Dordrecht, The Netherlands, 1986. 

Liss P. S. and Merlivat L. (1986) Air—sea gas exchange rates introduction and synthesis. In The Role of Air-Sea Gas Exchange in Geochemical Cycling (ed. P. Buat-Menard). Reidel, Dordrecht, pp. 113—127. 

Liss PS, Merlivat L (1986) Air-sea gas exchange rates Introduction and synthesis. In Buat-Menard P (ed) The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling. D. Reidel, Norwell, MA, pp 113-127 Lucassen-Reynders EH, Lucassen J (1969) Properties of capillary waves. Advan Colloid Interface Sci 2 347-395... 

The conjugate pairs responsible for most of the pH buffer capacity in marine water are HC03 /C03 and B(OH)3/B(OH)4. Althoughthepredominanceof HC03 at the oceanic pH of 8.2 actually places the carbonate system close to a pH buffer minimum, its importance is maintained by the high DIG concentration ( 2mM). Ocean water in contact with the atmosphere will, if the air-sea gas exchange rate is... 

Radon With its half-life of 3.8 days, the readily soluble gas Rn is in secular equilibrium with its parent "Ra in the interior ocean. At the boundaries of the ocean, however, inputs from sediments and release to the atmosphere create concentration gradients carrying useful kinetic information. The distribution of excess Rn near the seafloor is used to quantify vertical diffusion (see above. Figure 8) and ground-water inputs the depletion of Rn in surface waters has been used to quantify the air-sea gas exchange rate. 

Figure 1 Idealized plot of transfer coefficient (Kw) as a function of wind speed (u) and friction velocity (u ). (Adapted with permission from Liss PS and Merlivat L (1985) Air-sea gas exchange rates. In Buat-Menard P (ed.) The Role of Air-sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling, p. 117. NATO AS I Series C, vol. 185. Dordrecht Reidel.)...

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