Air–Sea Gas Exchange in Polar Regions
A special issue of Journal of Marine Science and Engineering (ISSN 2077-1312). This special issue belongs to the section "Chemical Oceanography".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: closed (30 December 2020) | Viewed by 274
Special Issue Editor
Interests: chemical oceanography; greenhouse gases; cold seeps; ocean acidification; carbon cycling; sea–ice biogeochemistry; Arctic Ocean
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
Air–sea gas exchange has a profound implication for the Earth’s climate and environment. Concentration of climate- and pollution-relevant gases is mediated by the interplay among physical, chemical, and biological processes at the ocean/atmosphere interface. While there are advances in understanding of these processes in accessible ocean regions, there is a lack of information about air–sea gas exchange in polar regions, which are changing most rapidly and dramatically in response to climate change and at the same time are difficult to access and study. Polar regions are usually covered with sea ice and have low temperatures and harsh weather conditions. It is hard for research vessels to reach high latitudes, and for most existing instrumentation to function and record data.
In this Special Issue, we would like to focus on new data related to air–sea gas exchange processes from polar regions, including advances in the development of instrumentation that is able to stand harsh conditions. We would like to have a special focus on factors affecting air–sea gas exchange in polar regions that are non-existent in other ocean areas, such as sea ice and snow cover, polar night, and polar day. Aspects of climate change in polar regions that serve as additional forces to processes affecting air–sea gas exchange, such as increasing frequency and magnitude of under ice phytoplankton blooms and ice algal blooms, elevated activity of sea ice microbial assemblages, storms, and changes in sea ice dynamics, are also interesting to consider.
We look forward to your research findings.
Dr. Anna Silyakova
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- Greenhouse gases
- Arctic
- Antarctic
- Gas exchange
- Air pollutants
- Biologically active gases
- Sea-ice gas chemistry
- Gas analyses
- Gas flux measurements
- Atmospheric gas budget
- Ocean/atmosphere interface
