Since the late 1960s, various groups have investigated the influence of marine surface films on mechanisms dominating energy and mass transfer across the ocean/atmosphere interface. However, a compendium summarizing the state-of-the-art research in this field is still missing. The book fills this gap and transfers the accumulated knowledge to the scientific community. After a brief historical chapter basic chemical insights are presented, followed by theoretical and experimental approaches carried out in laboratory facilities. Air-sea interaction experiments are then described and finally, remote sensing applications with sea slicks and crude oil spills are presented.
Author(s): Heinrich Hühnerfuss (auth.), Dr. Martin Gade, Prof. Dr. Heinrich Hühnerfuss, Prof. Dr. Gerald M. Korenowski (eds.)
Edition: 1
Publisher: Springer-Verlag Berlin Heidelberg
Year: 2006
Language: English
Pages: 341
Tags: Oceanography; Organic Chemistry; Ecotoxicology; Applied Geosciences; Waste Water Technology / Water Pollution Control / Water Management / Aquatic Pollution
Front Matter....Pages 1-1
Oil on troubled waters — a historical survey....Pages 3-12
Carlo Marangoni and the Laboratory of Physics at the High School “Liceo Classico Dante” in Firenze (Italy)....Pages 13-15
Tribute to Erik John Bock....Pages 17-18
Front Matter....Pages 19-19
Basic physicochemical principles of monomolecular sea slicks and crude oil spills....Pages 21-35
New chemical insights into the structure and morphology of sea slicks and their geophysical interpretations....Pages 37-44
Sea slicks: variability in chemical composition and surface elasticity....Pages 45-56
Correlation studies of mass spectral patterns and elasticity of sea-slick materials....Pages 57-64
On surface renewal and sea slicks....Pages 65-74
Front Matter....Pages 75-75
Physicochemical effects of the marine microlayer on air-sea gas transport....Pages 77-91
Static and dynamic surface tension of marine water: onshore or platform-based measurements by the oscillating bubble tensiometer....Pages 93-103
Multiple scattering of surface waves by two-dimensional colloid systems....Pages 105-112
Laboratory study of the damping of parametric ripples due to surfactant films....Pages 113-128
Wave tank study of phase velocities and damping of gravity-capillary wind waves in the presence of surface films....Pages 129-143
Laboratory measurements of artificial rain impinging on slick-free and slick-covered water surfaces....Pages 145-156
Imaging surfactant concentration distribution at the air/water interface....Pages 157-164
Imaging surfactant concentration distributions at the air/water interface....Pages 165-173
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Variability of the wave number spectra of short surface waves in the ocean and their modulation due to internal waves and natural slicks....Pages 177-187
On the imaging of biogenic and anthropogenic surface films on the sea by radar sensors....Pages 189-204
Slick radar image modelling with an extended “VIERS-1” wave spectrum....Pages 205-223
Thermal imagery of surface renewal phenomena....Pages 225-238
Front Matter....Pages 175-175
Infrared imaging: a novel tool to investigate the influence of surface slicks on air-sea gas transfer....Pages 239-252
Front Matter....Pages 253-253
Detection of oil spills by airborne sensors....Pages 255-271
Satellite monitoring of accidental and deliberate marine oil pollution....Pages 273-288
Long-term microwave radar monitoring of ocean slicks at low grazing angles....Pages 289-298
Oil spills on ALMAZ-1 and ERS-1 SAR images: results from the DOSE-91 experiment....Pages 299-313
Estimation of average surface currents from ERS SAR images of oil-tank cleaning spills....Pages 315-336
