scholarly journals LABORATORY OBSERVATIONS OF DISSOLVED CARBON DIOXIDE TRANSPORT UNDER REGULAR BREAKING WAVES

Author(s):  
Junichi Otsuka ◽  
Yasunori Watanabe

Air bubbles and strong turbulence that form in water from breaking waves play important roles in gas transfer across the air-sea interface (Melville, 1996). The entrained bubbles increase the total area of air-water interface per unit volume and enhance local gas dissolution into water. The dissolved gases mix in the water mass diffuse by the strong turbulence. These gas transfer-enhancing factors have been parameterized by only wind speed in models of gas transfer velocity in the deep ocean. Bulk parameters based on wind speed cannot be used for a surf zone, where waves break due to shoaling. In a surf zone, the cross-shore distributions of entrained bubbles and the turbulent intensity vary as waves propagate. The physical process of gas transfer under the complex air-water turbulent flows in breaking waves has not been clarified. Thus, breaking-wave factors that enhance gas transfer in a surf zone cannot be parameterized. In this study, we observed the transport process of dissolved carbon dioxide (DCO2) under air-water turbulent flows in a laboratory surf zone using image measurement systems.

2011 ◽  
Vol 1 (32) ◽  
pp. 8
Author(s):  
Junichi Otsuka ◽  
Yasunori Watanabe ◽  
Ayumi Saruwatari

In this study, we measured dissolved carbon dioxide (D-CO2) concentration in a surf zone in a laboratory wave flume filled with freshwater and seawater using a glass electrode CO2 meter, and also observed the air-water turbulent flow field using Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV). D-CO2 concentration increased with time and the bore region reached a saturated state earlier than the transition region. The gas transfer velocity in the transition region was much higher than that in the bore region since the numerous entrained bubbles trapped within three-dimensional vortices significantly contribute to the gas dissolution into water in the transition region. The gas transfer velocity in a surf zone in freshwater were found to be higher than those in seawater. We estimated the gas transfer velocity in a surf zone from the turbulent energy in breaking waves and the Schmidt number. It was found that the gas transfer velocity could be roughly estimated from the turbulent energy in breaking waves.


1975 ◽  
Vol 10 (1) ◽  
pp. 33-41 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. Butcher ◽  
M. Boyer ◽  
CD. Fowle

Abstract Eleven small ponds, lined with polyethylene, were used to assess the consequences of applications of *DursbanR at 0.004, 0.030, 0.100 and 1.000 ppm and AbateR at 0.025 and 0.100 ppm active ingredient. The treated ponds showed a more pronounced long-term increase in pH and dissolved oxygen and decreasing total and dissolved carbon dioxide in comparison with untreated ponds. Algal blooms were of longer duration in treated ponds than in controls. Total photosynthetic productivity was higher in treated ponds but bacterial numbers did not change significantly. Photosynthetic productivity was estimated by following the changes in total carbon dioxide.


2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 181-190
Author(s):  
Dmitry A. Novikov ◽  
Aleksandr N. Pyrayev ◽  
Fedor F. Dultsev ◽  
Anatoliy V. Chernykh ◽  
Svetlana V. Bakustina ◽  
...  

The article presents the first results of complex isotope-hydrogeochemical studies of reservoir waters of the Upper Jurassic deposits of the central regions of the Zaural megamonoclysis. It was shown that most waters have a narrow distribution of oxygen and hydrogen isotopes (δD from -103.2 to -85.6 ‰ and δO from -15.4 to -12.9 ‰). Some of them have pronounced excursions on the isotopic composition, which indicates a difference in their genesis: from condensate to mixed with ancient infiltrogenic. The isotopic composition of carbon of water-dissolved carbon dioxide (δС from -41.6 to -16.3 ‰) indicates its biogenic origin and the possibility of interstratal flows from overlying horizons.


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