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Air-sea gas exchange into the millennium: Progress and uncertainties

Lookup NU author(s): Thomas Frost, Professor Robert Upstill-GoddardORCiD

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Abstract

The current status of research into air-water gas exchange is reviewed. Some relevant basic concepts are re-examined within the context of current progress towards parameterization of the air-sea gas exchange process using models and data from wind-tunnels, and the interpretational difficulties that still persist with these approaches are identified and discussed. Subsequently, field measurements of air-water gas exchange are reviewed, with key developments highlighted, in particular, important recent advances in the use of micrometeorological and chemical tracer-based techniques of measurement. Results obtained with these methods are summarized and compared with laboratory wind-tunnel-based measurements, in order to identify some outstanding gas exchange issues still to be resolved. In the light of these, the potentially important roles played by a variety of physical, chemical and biological forcings are considered and some likely fruitful avenues for future research are outlined for this important area of global science.

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Author(s): Upstill-Goddard RC; Frost T

Publication type: Article

Publication status: Published

Journal: Oceanography and Marine Biology: an Annual Review Series

Year: 1999

Volume: 37

Pages: 1-45

Print publication date: 01/01/1999

ISSN (print): 0078-3218

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Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd.

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