Characterization of Air-Sea Gas Exchange Processes and Dissolved Gas/Ice Interactions Using Noble Gases

• Main Author: Hood, Eda M.
• Other Authors: MASSACHUSETTS INST OF TECH CAMBRIDGE
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1998
• Subjects: Physical and Dynamic Oceanography; Snow; Ice and Permafrost; *ICE FORMATION; *AIR WATER INTERACTIONS; THESES; CARBON DIOXIDE; OCEAN ENVIRONMENTS; GREENHOUSE EFFECT; GAS EXCHANGE(BIOLOGY); RARE GASES; RADIANT HEATING; *AIR SEA GAS EXCHANGE; GAS ICE INTERACTIONS; Fryxell; Lake Fryxell; Ice; permafrost
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA351132; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA351132

In order to constrain the processes controlling the cycles of biogeochemically important gases such as O2 and CO2, and thereby infer rates of biological activity in the upper ocean or the uptake of greenhouse" gases, the noble gases are used to characterize and quantify the physical processes a...