DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-3040.1985.tb01674.x. Physical, chemical and biological characteristics<sup>*</sup> of CO<sub>2</sub> gas flux across the air‐water interface

Physical, chemical and biological characteristics* of CO2 gas flux across the air‐water interface

10.1111/j.1365-3040.1985.tb01674.x

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Plant, Cell & Environment (311)

Abstract

Abstract Carbon dioxide gas flux across the air‐water interface is most often treated as a ‘simple’ physical process, primarily responding to wind speed and water temperature. Available experimental data yield an exponential regression equation relating wind speed to the thickness of a stagnant boundary film through which gas diffuses to or from the water. Flux of CO2 is influenced by CO2 hydration reactions in the stagnant boundary layer. High pH and a thick stagnant boundary layer favour chemical enhancement of the CO2 gas flux.The rate of CO2 flux reflects the sum of net organic metabolism plus CaCO3 reactions. Some interesting gas‐flux constraints on the rate of net organic carbon production and on global geochemical cycling of CaCO3 emerge. At high pH (circa 10), the maximum net organic carbon production which can be supported by CO2 flux across the air‐water interface is about 0.06 mol C m&2 d&1. On a global scale, organic C, not atmospheric C, appears to account for the ‘CO2’ term in the classical CaCO3 dissolution‐precipitation reaction.

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SMITH, S. V. (1985). Physical, chemical and biological characteristics* of CO2 gas flux across the airâwater interface. Plant, Cell & Environment, 8(6), 387â398. Portico.

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S. V. SMITH (first)

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  "subject": [],
  "container-title-short": "Plant Cell &amp; Environment",
  "published": {
    "date-parts": [
      [
        1985,
        8
      ]
    ]
  }
}