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5.1. SMALL-SCALE AIR-SEA INTERACTION 181<br />
5.1.8 Development of a depth resolving boundary layer visualization for<br />
gas exchange at free water surfaces<br />
Participating scientist Tobias Schwarz<br />
Abstract To directly visualize gas concentration transport in the water-sided boundary layer, a<br />
combined LIF-measurement system consisting of a laser scanning unit and a confocal microscope has<br />
been developed and constructed. Furthermore, methods to reconstruct a 2-D depth profile had been<br />
investigated.<br />
Figure 5.8: An example of the fluorescence intensity changes through local gas concentrations, illuminated<br />
with the laser scanning system.<br />
Background As detailed knowledge of gas exchange<br />
between atmosphere and ocean is of great<br />
importance for predicting and modeling future<br />
climate situations, this diploma thesis aimed at<br />
the development of a measurement system for improved<br />
gas exchange measurements.<br />
Funding Graduiertenkolleg 1114 “Optische<br />
Messtechniken <strong>für</strong> die Charakterisierung von<br />
Transportprozessen an Grenzflächen” (TU Darmstadt<br />
and U Heidelberg)<br />
Methods and results A measurement setup<br />
is introduced which makes it possible to directly<br />
measure two-dimensional, vertical concentration<br />
profiles of gases in the water sided boundary layer<br />
using Laser-Induced Fluorescence (LIF). While it<br />
is impossible to gain knowledge of the physical<br />
processes involved in gas exchange using measurements<br />
of transfer rates and mass balances, the introduced<br />
method makes it possible to directly visualize<br />
the physical processes of matter transport<br />
in the layer. The measurement method is based on<br />
two basic principles: First, a fluorescence indicator<br />
is used, whose fluorescence intensity is proportional<br />
to the local pH-value, thus allowing a spa-<br />
tial resolved measurement of the concentrations of<br />
dissolved alkaline or acidic gases. Second, to create<br />
a depth resolution, a second, absorbing dye is<br />
added, whose absorption maximum lies inside the<br />
fluorescence spectrum, so that spectra from different<br />
depths show changes in their spectral shape<br />
due to the different light path lengths through the<br />
absorber. Thus the measured spectrum is the superposition<br />
of all depth spectra, which provide the<br />
basis of a linear inverse problem. Models for the<br />
reconstruction of the depth information will be introduced<br />
in the course of this thesis, and the solvability<br />
will be analyzed. As the stability of the<br />
solution of the inverse problem is almost exclusively<br />
determined by the invertibility of the basis<br />
function matrix, a confocal microscope was constructed,<br />
which allowed the direct measurement of<br />
depth spectra. Thereby it was made possible to<br />
numerically analyze and evaluate the conditioning<br />
of the matrix invertibility.<br />
Outlook/Future work Work to be continued<br />
within Graduiertenkolleg 1114<br />
Main publication Schwarz [2005]