Air-sea fluxes of climatically relevant gases in the marine atmospheric boundary layer.
Funding Year: 2008
Funding Scheme: Reintegration Grant
Sub-Programme: People Programme
Project Duration: 2008- 2012
Total Project Value: €100,000
EU Grant-Aid: €100,000
Grant-Aid to Ireland: €100,000
Lead Partner: National University of Ireland, Galway (Ireland
Website: Not currently available
Project Summary:
The scientific objectives of this reintegration grant are to simultaneously measure the fluxes of climatically relevant compounds in both the coastal and oceanic marine atmospheric boundary layer. The proposed species are carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, and carbon monoxide. All species will be detected at 1-10 Hz, which will allow for fluxes to be directly determined using the eddy correlation method. This proposed method takes advantage of recently-developed trace gas analyser (TGA) technology. The TGA will be deployed at the Mace Head Research Station where a time series over several years will be acquired. The system will also be deployed periodically on research vessels to compare the magnitude of the fluxes in the coastal regions with open ocean data. This measurement will be one of the first of its kind deployed in the marine atmospheric boundary layer and will provide an invaluable time series of the fluxes over an extended period.
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