Transport at the Air-Sea Interface

This volume offers readers a unique tool for conducting research in air-sea interactions. It details recent progress in the domains of experimental process studies as well as computer stimulation. It represents a first approach of merging insights gained in both fields and broadens our understanding of the processes involved in air-water gas and heat exchange. Predictions of our future climate vary greatly, with detailed forecasts still subject to debate. One key uncertainty is caused by the lack of our present knowledge of transport processes in the air-water interface, which poses the main transfer resistance between the oceans and atmosphere. This book will help readers gain a more complete understanding of the mechanisms involved in transporting energy and mass between the atmosphere and the sea, which will allow modeling and predictions of our global climate to greatly improve.

Supplies the readers with a unique tool for conducting research in air-sea interactions

Inhalt
The Impact of Different Gas Exchange Formulations and Wind Speed Products on Global Air-Sea CO2 Fluxes.- Turbulent Gas Flux Measurements near the Air-Water Interface in a Grid-Stirred Tank.- Quantitative Imaging of CO2 Transfer at an Unsheared Free Surface.- Visualisation of Oxygen Concentration Fields in the Mass Boundary Layer by Fluorescence Quenching.- Visualization of 2-D Divergence on the Free Surface and its Relation to Gas Transfer.- The Air-Water Interface: Turbulence and Scalar Exchange.- Turbulence Generation in the Wind-Driven Subsurface Water Flow.- Defining the Enhancement of Air-Water Interfacial Oxygen Exchange Rate due to Wind-Forced Microscale Waves.- Momentum Flux and Energy Dissipation Associated with Breaking Waves.- The Interaction of Ocean Surface Processes, Waves, and Turbulence in the Adjacent Boundary Layers.- A Numerical Study on the Characteristic Flow Structures of a Micro-Breaking Wind Wave.- The Effect of Raindrops on Interfacial Turbulence and Air-Water Gas Transfer.- Air-Water Flux Reconciliation Between the Atmospheric CO2 Profile and Mass Balance Techniques.- Air-Water Interfacial Temperature Measurements.- Observations of the Structure of the Surface Temperature Field at an Air-Water Interface for Stable and Unstable Cases.- Estimating the Viscous Shear Stress at the Water Surface from Active Thermography.- Estimation of Air-Sea Gas and Heat Fluxes from Infrared Imagery Based on Near Surface Turbulence Models.- The Influence of Intermittency on Air-Water Gas Transfer Measurements.- Micrometeorological Approaches to Measure Air-Water CO2 Fluxes.- Bias of CO2 Surface Fluxes Estimated by Eddy Covariance due to Adjustment Fluxes..- Eddy Correlation Measurements of Sea Spray Aerosol Fluxes.