Hypsometric curve

Figure 7.15 A simple ocean-atmosphere-continent system. Pressure of C02 enhances Ca release from the continental crust (which is assumed to be made of CaSi03) and controls the depth of calcite saturation. Calcite precipitation is therefore controlled by the hypsometric curve, equation (7.4.8), and Pco2-...

Figure 2 Distribution of surface area as a function of altitude for Venus, i.e., the hypsometric curve (after Fegley and Treiman, 1992) (reproduced by permission of American Geophysical Union from Geophysical Monograph...

A) Water column oxygen consumption rate (from sediment trap and OUR determinations) and benthic flux (pmol O2 m y ) as a function of depth in the ocean. Redrawn from Jahnke and Jackson (1987). The benthic fluxes are normalized to the volume of water exposed per unit of sediment area and indicate that below 3000 m the respiration contribution from the sediments is greater than that in the water. The hypsometric curve in (B) indicates that the region between 3000 and 5000 m depth also has the greatest sea floor area to ocean volume ratio, which is indicated by the shaded region in (A). 

Figure 12. Comparison of normalized isotopic composition of weighted means versus elevation of Bolivian stations from Gonfiantini et al. (2001) for 1983 (triangles), 1984 (squares), and 1982 to 1986 averages (filled circles), and normalized 5180sw from small tributaries from Garzione et al. (2007) plotted at sample elevations. Model curves are weighted mean (bold), median (fine), la (coarse dashed), and 2a (fine dashed). Note that detailed location data needed to compute various hypsometric weighted means as discussed below are not yet published for these surface waters.

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