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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]

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