The Sea Surface and Global Change: Bubbles and their role in gas exchange
The Sea Surface and Global Change: Bubbles and their role in gas exchange
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DOI:
10.1017/cbo9780511525025.007
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发表时间:
1997
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D. Woolf
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作者:
D. Woolf
Bubbles can be generated at the sea surface by many mechanisms, but the main source is by the entrainment of air in breaking waves. Bubbles will scavenge material from the surrounding water, thus contributing to the cycling of dissolved and particulate organic material. When they burst at the sea surface these bubbles generate a sea salt aerosol contaminated with material scavenged from the sea-surface microlayer and below. Gases will be exchanged between a bubble and the surrounding water while it is submerged. In addition, the breaking waves and surfacing bubble plumes disrupt the surface microlayer, and this may enhance transfer of gases directly through the sea surface.