Different from the solution/physical pump, biological pump and continental shelf pump of carbon cycle in oceans, a new pump named “surface microlayer (SML) pump” is developed based on data obtained from marine inves...Different from the solution/physical pump, biological pump and continental shelf pump of carbon cycle in oceans, a new pump named “surface microlayer (SML) pump” is developed based on data obtained from marine investigations and lab study. The SML pump has: (1) left-right dissymmetry of “pH-depth” curve; (2) the non-linearity of “concentration-depth” curve; and (3) difference of affect-ing confine of the SML pump. The issue of “source” or “sink” of atmospheric CO2 in the Yellow Sea and South China Sea is discussed.展开更多
基金This work was supported by the Great Project of the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant No. 40490263)the National Natural Science Foundation of China (Grant Nos. 40076020, 40376022)+1 种基金 the research for the Doctoral Program for Higher Education (Grant No. 20030423007) the '973' National Basic Research Priorities Programme (Grant No. 2001CB409703).
文摘Different from the solution/physical pump, biological pump and continental shelf pump of carbon cycle in oceans, a new pump named “surface microlayer (SML) pump” is developed based on data obtained from marine investigations and lab study. The SML pump has: (1) left-right dissymmetry of “pH-depth” curve; (2) the non-linearity of “concentration-depth” curve; and (3) difference of affect-ing confine of the SML pump. The issue of “source” or “sink” of atmospheric CO2 in the Yellow Sea and South China Sea is discussed.
