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Air-sea gas exchange in tidal fronts

2002· dissertation· en· W2900604771 on OpenAlex

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Bibliographic record

VenueUVic’s Research and Learning Repository (University of Victoria) · 2002
Typedissertation
Languageen
FieldEarth and Planetary Sciences
TopicAquatic and Environmental Studies
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsOceanographyGeologyEnvironmental scienceMeteorologyHydrology (agriculture)GeographyGeotechnical engineering
DOInot available

Abstract

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Strong tidal currents in the Fraser Estuary, BC, Canada, cause intense flow-topography interaction around islands and over shallow sills. At Boundary Pass, a steep sill forms a pronounced barrier for flow of dense water from the Pacific Ocean into the Strait of Georgia. The processes at the sill control the renewal of deep and intermediate water in the Strait.
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\nThe strong flood tidal flow forces dense water to flow over the sill. It then meets a fresh surface layer just downstream of the sill crest and subducts underneath the fresh water, setting up a hydraulic sill flow with an arrested upper layer. Vertical current speeds at the downstream side of the sill reach up to 0.75 m s−1, and intense detrainment of dense water from the lower into the upper layer causes a volume loss of 60% over a distance of 200 m.
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\nSurface waves travelling into the convergence zone (tidal front) over the sill crest tend to steepen and break due to wave-current interaction. The breaking waves inject gas bubbles, which either rise back to the sea surface or dissolve completely, depending on their rise speed and the strength of the vertical currents. Bubbles injected close to the plunge point of the dense water mass are drawn down by the extreme currents to depths of up to 160 m, enhancing air-sea gas exchange.
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\nThe hydraulic flow, wave-current interaction, and gas bubble behaviour are described with simple models. They are used to interpret extensive ship-board measurements during two cruises in the Fraser estuary and help in the understanding of the physical processes involved in air-sea gas exchange in tidal fronts. The oxygen flux in the tidal front at Boundary Pass is compared with other oxygen sources in the Fraser Estuary and shows that tidal fronts may contribute significantly to the aeration of an estuary.
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\nThe described processes may be also applicable to other coastal areas with strong tidal currents like Norway, Chile, or Japan, and may be important in convergence zones like deep convection regimes.

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Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesInsufficient payload (model declined to judge)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Observational · Consensus signal: Observational
GenreCandidate signal: Empirical · Consensus signal: Empirical
Teacher disagreement score0.034
Threshold uncertainty score0.999

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.000
Science and technology studies0.0010.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.000
Open science0.0000.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0020.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.024
GPT teacher head0.232
Teacher spread0.208 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it