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Air-Sea Carbon Dioxide Exchange In The Southern Ocean And Antarctic Sea Ice Zone, Brian Butterworth
Air-Sea Carbon Dioxide Exchange In The Southern Ocean And Antarctic Sea Ice Zone, Brian Butterworth
Legacy Theses & Dissertations (2009 - 2024)
The Southern Ocean is an important part of the global carbon cycle, responsible for roughly half of the carbon dioxide (CO2) absorbed by the global ocean. The air-sea CO2 flux (Fc) can be expressed as the product of the water-air CO2 partial pressure difference (ΔpCO2) and the gas transfer velocity (k), an exchange coefficient which represents the efficiency of gas exchange. Generally, Fc is negative (a sink) throughout the Southern Ocean and Antarctic sea ice zone (SIZ), but uncertainty in k has made it difficult to develop an accurate regional carbon budget. Constraining the functional dependence of k on wind …