Transport at the Air-Sea Interface Measurements, Models and Parametr
Predictions of our future climate vary greatly, with detailed forecasts still subject to debate. One key uncertainty is caused by the lack of our present knowledge of transport processes in the air-water interface, which poses the main transfer resistance
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ristoph S. Garbe, Robert A. Handler, Bernd Jähne (Eds.)
Transport at the Air-Sea Interface Measurements, Models and Parametrizations
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PRIV.-DOZ. DR. C.S. GARBE PROF. DR. B. JÄHNE INTERDISCIPLINARY CENTER FOR SCIENTIFIC COMPUTING UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG IM NEUENHEIMER FELD 368 69120 HEIDELBERG GERMANY
DR. R.A. HANDLER Naval Research Laboratory 4555 Overlook Avenue SW Washington DC 20375 USA E-mail: [email protected]
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INSTITUTE OF ENVIRONMENTAL PHYSICS UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG IM NEUENHEIMER FELD 229 69120 HEIDELBERG GERMANY
E-mail: Christoph.Garbe@ iwr.uni-heidelberg.de [email protected]
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Preface
The sea surface represents the interface between the ocean and the atmosphere. As the interface is approached from either the atmospheric or ocean side, the transport mechanisms are shifted from turbulent to diffusive diffusion. Hence the viscous boundary layers at both sides of the water surface represents the major resistance to the transport of energy, mass and impulse between atmosphere and ocean. This has implications for the composition of the atmosphere and has gained importance especially for radiatively (climate)-active gases such as CO2 , CH4 , N2 O and DMS. But also, the transport of gases across the interface is significant for the fate and the atmospheric/marine budgets of many man-made pollutants, in particular of volatile organic compounds and mercury. The two key variables which are required for the determination of the gas exchange fluxes are the partial pressure difference of the considered gas at the sea surface, and the gas exchange transfer velocity k. Partial pressure differences are either obtained from measurements in the surface water and in the atmospher
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