Objectives
This project builds upon the foundational Andreas Gas Exchange Spray model (AGES) developed through NSF project #1630846 for non-reactive gases by expanding its parameterizations to:
O1) Include gas exchange of carbon dioxide (CO2) through sea spray.
O2) Incorporate the entire carbonate system (carbonate and bicarbonate) associated with CO2 including alkalinity and pH profiles across sea spray drop evolution.
The project also seeks to build upon results of NSF projects #1924686 and #2121646 to:
O3) Incorporate a physics-based sea spray model into the surface wave-breaking model efforts.
O4) Combine the CO2 gas exchange component of the AGES model from O1 and O2 to the dynamic modeling framework in O3 to provide a tool for evaluating gas exchange in the Southern Ocean.
Publications:
- Timescales for the Spray-Mediated Gas Exchange of Carbon Dioxide L Hendrickson, P Vlahos, L Romero Journal of Marine Science and Engineering 12 (7), 1128 https://doi.org/10.3390/jmse12071128
Presentations:
- Carbonate System Changes Within an Evaporating Sea Spray Droplet L Hendrickson, P Vlahos, L Romero EGU24 (Vienna, Austria)
- AI14B-2329Modeling CO2 emission from an evaporating sea spray droplet Lucy Hendrickson, Penny Vlahos and Leonel Romero, University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, United States (Ocean Sciences, New Orleans, Fe, 2024)