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Title: Measurements of CO{sub 2} fluxes and bubbles from a tower during ASGASEX

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OSTI ID:467708
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  1. TNO, The Hague (Netherlands). Physics and Electronics Lab.
  2. Riso National Lab., Roskilde (Denmark)

The Air-Sea Gas Exchange experiment ASGASEX was conducted from August 30 until October 1st from the Meetpost Noordwijk (MPN), a research tower in the North Sea at 9 km from the Dutch coast. The objective of ASGASEX was a study of parameters affecting the air-sea exchange of gases, and a comparison of experimental methods to derive the exchange coefficient for CO{sub 2}. A detailed description of the ASGASEX experiment is presented in Oost. The authors` contribution to ASGASEX was a micro-meteorological package to measure the fluxes of CO{sub 2}, momentum, heat and water vapor, and an instrument to measure the size distribution of bubbles just below the sea surface. In this contribution the authors report preliminary results from the CO{sub 2} flux measurements and the bubble measurements. The latter was made as part of a larger study on the influence of bubbles on gas exchange in cooperation with the University of Southampton and the University of Galway.

OSTI ID:
467708
Report Number(s):
CONF-9409461-; TRN: IM9721%%136
Resource Relation:
Conference: 2. International conference on air-sea interaction and on meterology and oceanography of the coastal zone, Lisbon (Portugal), 22-27 Sep 1994; Other Information: PBD: [1994]; Related Information: Is Part Of Second international conference on air-sea interaction and on meteorology and oceanography of the coastal zone; PB: 343 p.
Country of Publication:
United States
Language:
English