Diapycnal flux of nitrous oxide across the thermocline
The oceans produce a significant amount of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O). They account for an estimated 5 to 40 percent of the total supply to the atmosphere. Our contribution explores the oceanic N2O budget in order to determine N2O sea-to-air-fluxes more precisely. Within the SOPRA...
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ftoceanrep:oai:oceanrep.geomar.de:8769 2023-05-15T17:38:27+02:00 Diapycnal flux of nitrous oxide across the thermocline Fischer, Tim Kock, Annette Bange, Hermann W. Brandt, Peter Dengler, Marcus 2010 https://oceanrep.geomar.de/id/eprint/8769/ unknown Fischer, T. , Kock, A. , Bange, H. W. , Brandt, P. and Dengler, M. (2010) Diapycnal flux of nitrous oxide across the thermocline. [Talk] In: EGU General Assembly. , 05.05.2010, Vienna, Austria . Conference or Workshop Item NonPeerReviewed 2010 ftoceanrep 2023-04-07T14:57:13Z The oceans produce a significant amount of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O). They account for an estimated 5 to 40 percent of the total supply to the atmosphere. Our contribution explores the oceanic N2O budget in order to determine N2O sea-to-air-fluxes more precisely. Within the SOPRAN research programme we quantified diapycnal flux of N2O across the thermocline in an open ocean region of the Tropical North East Atlantic. Data was collected during two cruises in and near the region of the oxygen minimum zone off West Africa and during several surveys of the TENATSO time series station near Cape Verde. Diapycnal flux of N2O is calculated in a direct manner by using N2O concentration profiles and associated diapycnal diffusion profiles from a microstructure probe. We focus on the thermocline because this zone acts as a bottleneck for upward mixing of N2O, when on its way from source regions below the thermocline to the mixed layer. In the thermocline turbulent mixing is very low and anisotropic, but still significantly different from molecular diffusion and still accessible to microstructure measurement. The low mixing shows up in a sharp N2O gradient across the thermocline that allows most precise N2O flux quantification here. Conference Object North East Atlantic OceanRep (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre für Ocean Research Kiel) |
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The oceans produce a significant amount of the potent greenhouse gas nitrous oxide (N2O). They account for an estimated 5 to 40 percent of the total supply to the atmosphere. Our contribution explores the oceanic N2O budget in order to determine N2O sea-to-air-fluxes more precisely. Within the SOPRAN research programme we quantified diapycnal flux of N2O across the thermocline in an open ocean region of the Tropical North East Atlantic. Data was collected during two cruises in and near the region of the oxygen minimum zone off West Africa and during several surveys of the TENATSO time series station near Cape Verde. Diapycnal flux of N2O is calculated in a direct manner by using N2O concentration profiles and associated diapycnal diffusion profiles from a microstructure probe. We focus on the thermocline because this zone acts as a bottleneck for upward mixing of N2O, when on its way from source regions below the thermocline to the mixed layer. In the thermocline turbulent mixing is very low and anisotropic, but still significantly different from molecular diffusion and still accessible to microstructure measurement. The low mixing shows up in a sharp N2O gradient across the thermocline that allows most precise N2O flux quantification here. |
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Diapycnal flux of nitrous oxide across the thermocline |
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Fischer, T. , Kock, A. , Bange, H. W. , Brandt, P. and Dengler, M. (2010) Diapycnal flux of nitrous oxide across the thermocline. [Talk] In: EGU General Assembly. , 05.05.2010, Vienna, Austria . |
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