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Carbon dioxide fluxes over the atlantic ocean estimated from measurements at Tiana Beach, Long Island, New York

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Mean carbon dioxide concentration-gradients were measured continuously for a period of three weeks during December 1978 at Tiana Beach, Long Island, with onshore atmospheric flows. The height interval was 20 m and the fetch over the sandy beach for onshore flows was about 20 m for low tides and near zero for high tides. Measurements at the beach were thus approximately representative of over-ocean atmospheric flows. Concentration differences for this height interval were found to vary from 0.75 to 2 ppm. Approximate computations indicated this local gradient to be about two orders of magnitude greater than the values estimated from global means.

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  1. Atmospheric Sciences Division, Department of Energy and Environment, Brookhaven National Laboratory, Upton, New York, USA

    S. Sethuraman

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Authored under contract DE-ACO2-76CH00016 with the U.S. Department of Energy. The U.S. Government retains a nonexclusive, royalty-free license to publish or reproduce the published form of this contribution, or allow others to do so, for U.S. Government purposes.

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Sethuraman, S. Carbon dioxide fluxes over the atlantic ocean estimated from measurements at Tiana Beach, Long Island, New York. Boundary-Layer Meteorol 20, 19–26 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00119921

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