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This book describes a chemical perspective on the science of oceanography. The goal is to understand the mechanisms that control the distributions of chemical compounds in the sea. The "chemical perspective" uses measured chemical distributions to infer oceanic biological, physical, chemical, and geological processes. This method has enormous information potential because of the variety of chemical compounds and the diversity of their chemical behaviors and distributions. It is complicated by the requirement that one must understand something about the reactions and time scales that control chemical distributions. Chemical concentrations in the sea "remember" the mechanisms that shape them over their whole oceanic lifetime. The time-scales of important mechanisms range from seconds or less for very rapid photochemical reactions to more than 100 million years for the mineral forming reactions that control relatively unreactive elements in seawater. The great range in time scales is associated with an equally large range in space scales: from chemical fluxes associated with individual microorganisms to globally distributed processes like river inflow and hydrothermal circulation.

Chemical oceanography --- Chemical oceanography. --- Océanographie chimique.

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Estuariën. Oceanografie. --- Estuaires. Océanographie. --- Océanographie chimique. --- Chemische oceanografie.

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"Fully updated and expanded, this new edition provides students with an accessible introduction to marine chemistry. It highlights geochemical interactions between the ocean, solid earth, atmosphere and climate, enabling students to appreciate the interconnectedness of Earth's processes and systems and elucidates the huge variations in the oceans' chemical environment, from surface waters to deep water. Written in a clear, engaging way, the book provides students in oceanography, marine chemistry and biogeochemistry with the fundamental tools they need for a strong understanding of ocean chemistry. Appendices present information on seawater properties, key equations and constants for calculating oceanographic processes. New to this edition are end-of-chapter problems for students to put theory into practice, summaries to allow easy review of material and a comprehensive glossary. Supporting online resources include solutions to problems and figures from the book"--

Chemical oceanography --- Océanographie chimique --- Chemical oceanography. --- SCIENCE / Earth Sciences / Oceanography. --- Océanographie chimique

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Chemical oceanography --- Océanographie chimique --- Chemical oceanography. --- Océanographie chimique --- Water supply. Water treatment. Water pollution --- Geochemistry

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'Ocean Biogeochemical Dynamics' provides a broad theoretical framework upon which graduate students and upper-level undergraduates can formulate an understanding of the processes that control the mean concentration and distribution of biologically utilized elements and compounds in the ocean. Though it is written as a textbook, it will also be of interest to more advanced scientists as a wide-ranging synthesis of our present understanding of ocean biogeochemical processes. The first two chapters of the book provide an introductory overview of biogeochemical and physical oceanography. The next four chapters concentrate on processes at the air-sea interface, the production of organic matter in the upper ocean, the remineralization of organic matter in the water column, and the processing of organic matter in the sediments. The focus of these chapters is on analyzing the cycles of organic carbon, oxygen, and nutrients. The next three chapters round out the authors' coverage of ocean biogeochemical cycles with discussions of silica, dissolved inorganic carbon and alkalinity, and CaCO3. The final chapter discusses applications of ocean biogeochemistry to our understanding of the role of the ocean carbon cycle in interannual to decadal variability, paleoclimatology, and the anthropogenic carbon budget. The problem sets included at the end of each chapter encourage students to ask critical questions in this exciting new field. While much of the approach is mathematical, the math is at a level that should be accessible to students with a year or two of college level mathematics and/or physics.

Chemical oceanography --- Biogeochemistry --- Océanographie chimique --- Biogéochimie --- Mathematical models --- Biogeochemistry. --- Chemical oceanography. --- Mathematical models. --- Océanographie chimique --- Biogéochimie --- Marine chemistry --- Océanographie chimique. --- Biogéochimie. --- Modèles mathématiques --- Modèles mathématiques. --- Oceanography --- Water chemistry --- Biochemistry --- Geochemistry --- Chemical oceanography - Mathematical models --- Biogeochemistry - Mathematical models