Due to the oxidizing nature of the Earth’s surface environment, including most of the oceanic water column, nitrate (NO3-) is by far the most abundant combined nitrogen species in aquatic systems. From "Marine nitrogen cycle" by Naqvi: http://www.eoearth.org/article/Marine_ ...
By now, most additions to the model are introduced by me, including bugs. I caught a big one this morning, related to OMP. It depressed me for about 30 mins, but I am tough, bouncing back like a rabbit. (Well, I wish I could run away from this never-ending project like a rabbit, but I can't.)
This is a long weekend in the U.S., at least for the staff at the U. Hawaii. I knew I had to work hard this weekend, because I agreed to give a seminar on Thursday and I need a lot of test experiments to decide on our main run (control run) for my talk and for our paper. I went to work for an hour ...
I wrote Introducing Physical Oceanography for a young woman, who is trying to get into a graduate school. I also gave a presentation at a college in Hangzhou, entitled Your future is in your hands. The audience was seniors in Physics and Math. I t ...
According to TEOS-10 , the official source of information about the Thermodynamic Equation Of Seawater - 2010 (TEOS-10). A significant change compared with past practice is that TEOS-10 uses Absolute Salinity SA (mass fraction of salt in seawater) as opposed ...