Air-Water Gas Exchange in Coastal Ocean
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Physical Oceanography".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (31 January 2022) | Viewed by 540
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Interests: quantifying air-sea exchange; sea surface microlayer; marine trace gases; biological surfactants
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Dear Colleagues,
Quantifying the air-sea exchanges of reactive trace gases and the factors that control them is critical to our understanding of wide-ranging climate-related processes and regional to global biogeochemical cycles. For many trace gases estuaries and coastal seas are “hot spots”, characterised by high rates of biogeochemical cycling, and large emissions to air. High spatial and temporal variability are characteristic features, reflecting strong gradients in biology, biogeochemistry, and the environmental controls of air-sea gas exchange rates. There remains considerable uncertainty over the scales of these variabilities and how they are mediated. This should be urgently addressed because the biogeochemical models and largescale climate models that crucially depend on this information are central to developing the predictive capacity needed for quantifying regional and global scale trace gas fluxes and feedbacks.
For this special issue we are therefore inviting contributions that further our understanding of trace gas emissions and the processes that drive them, in coastal waters including estuaries. The broad remit of the special issue thus includes both observational and modelling studies that improve estimates of fluxes and clarify the underlying biogeochemical and physical drivers.
Prof. Dr. Robert Upstill-Goddard
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Trace gas exchange
- Coastal waters
- Estuaries
- Biogeochemical cycles
- Environmental Drivers
- Temporal variability
- Spatial variability
- Feedbacks
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