Advances in Quantifying Air-Sea Gas Exchange and Environmental Forcing

Publication Type: 
Year of Publication: 
2009
Journal Title: 
Annual Review of Marine Science
Volume: 
1
Pages: 
213-244
ISBN Number: 
1941-1405
Accession Number: 
ISI:000267421700010
Abstract: 

The past decade has seen a substantial amount of research on air-sea gas exchange and its environmental controls. These studies have significantly advanced the understanding of processes that control gas transfer, led to higher quality field measurements, and improved estimates of the flux of climate-relevant gases between the ocean and atmosphere. This review discusses the Fundamental principles of air-sea gas transfer and recent developments in gas transfer theory, parameterizations, and measurement techniques in the context of the exchange of carbon dioxide. However, much of this discussion is applicable to any sparingly soluble, non-reactive gas. We show how the use of global variables of environmental forcing that have recently become available and gas exchange relationships that incorporate die main forcing factors will lead to improved estimates of global and regional air-sea gas fluxes based on better fundamental physical, chemical, and biological foundations.

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DOI: 
DOI 10.1146/annurev.marine.010908.163742