Surface waters times series

Figure 3. Time series of nitrate (Slagle and Heimerdinger 1991) and dissolved, particulate, and total in surface water at 47°N, 20°W (Atlantic Ocean) in April-May 1989. activity calculated as 0.0686 salinity (Chen et al. 1986). The production of biogenic particles during the bloom enhances the scavenging of Th, resulting in growing disequilibrium with time due to sinking of particles.

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The role of radionuclides as tracer of the chemical transport in river is also reinforced by the fact that each of the U-Th-Ra elements has several isotopes of very different half-lives belonging to the U-Th radioactive series. Thus, these series permit comparison of the behavior of isotopes of the same element which are supposed to have the same chemical properties, but very different lifetimes. These comparisons should be very helpful in constraining time scales of transport in rivers. This was illustrated by Porcelli et al. (2001) who compared ( " Th/ U) and ( °Th/ U) ratios in Kalix river waters and estimated a transit time for Th of 15 10 days in this watershed. The development of such studies in the future should lead to an important progress in understanding and quantifying of transport parameters in surface waters. This information could be crucial for a correct use of U-series radioactive disequilibria measured in river waters to establish weathering budgets at the scale of a watershed. 

Fig. 2.3.4 Film formation of a photoinitiated the lower surface (left) after a 90 min induction cross-linking latex coating as measured by period due to oxygen absorption. The profiles CARField. (a) The coating is exposed to air shown were recorded 10, 90, 100 and 110 min (evaporation) and light from above, (b) A sam- and 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 and 17 h after casting the layer, pie comprising a combination of only polymer (d)The full formulation film forms in the central and water dries from the upper surface (right) layers first. In this final time series, the profiles as shown by a time series of profiles, recorded shown were recorded after 10 min (dotted at 10, 20, 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 100 and 120 min trace, T) attenuated) and then, from the top after casting the layer, (c) A combination of down, 30, 60 and 90 min and 2, 3, 6 and 17 h polymer and photoinitiator only cures from after casting the layer.

In the adsorption with Tenax alone satisfactory results were obtained, while in the presence of mineral oil a considerable proportion of the organophos-phorus pesticides (particularly Malathion and Parathion-methyl) was not adsorbed and was recovered in the filtered water. This drawback can be overcome by adding a layer of Celite 545 which, in order to prevent blocking of the column, is mixed with silanised glass wool plugs. A number of analyses of surface and estuarine sea waters were carried out by this modified Tenax column and simultaneously by the liquid-liquid extraction technique. To some of the samples taken, standard mixtures of pesticides were also added, each at the level of 1 xg/l (i.e., in concentration from 13 to 500 times higher than that usually found in the waters analysed). One recovery trial also specifically concerned polychlorobiphenyls. The results obtained in these tests show that the two extraction methods, when applied to surface waters that were not filtered before extraction, yielded very similar results for many insecticides, with the exception of compounds of the DDT series, for which discordant results were frequently obtained. 

FIGURE 3.2 The variation of nitrate (+ nitrite) concentrations in surface waters at the Atlantic (BATS) time series study site (Michaels et al., 2001). 

There exist time-series observations at two locations in the Caribbean South of Puerto Rico at the Caribbean Time-series Study site (CaTS 17.6°N, 67°W), and north of Venezuela at the CARIACO site (Carbon Retention in a Colored Ocean Project 10.5°N, 64.67°W). At the former, the Caribbean Surface Water (upper 75 m) experiences a yearlong influence of continental river input, as evidenced by lowered... 

Figure l6.6 Representative upper ocean profile of NO3, DON and PON at Station ALOHA based on 17-year time-series observations. Note accumulation of reduced N, especially DON in near-surface and decreases with depth. In the near-surface waters at Station ALOHA, DON accounts for nearly 95 % of the total fixed N inventory. 

For remote locations on a more global scale, Boyle et al. (1994) showed that the stable Pb concentration in North Atlantic waters decreased at least three-fold from 1979 to 1988. Wu and Boyle (1997) confirmed and extended this time series to 1996 whereby the concentration of stable Pb apparently stabilized at 50pmolkg in surface waters near Bermuda. Shen and Boyle (1987) presented a 100-year record of Pb concentration in corals from Bermuda and the Florida Straits showing that Pb peaked in the 1970s and declined thereafter. Veron et al. (1987) found high Pb concentrations in northeast Atlantic surficial sediments and noted that the quantity of Pb stored... 

Figure 3. Time (space) series of pH T) temperature, and chlorophyll a measured in the surface waters of the Gulf...

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