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The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling pp 65–82Cite as

Modeling Oceanic Transport of Dissolved Constituents

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The development of geochemical cycling models for the oceans requires a consideration of the physical as well as chemical and biological processes affecting the constituent of interest. The subject of this chapter is how one deals with the physical processes. The approach is to focus on the process of building ocean models by going through a hierarchy of models, from simple to complex; and thinking, along the way, through a series of examples, about the assumptions that are being made and how these assumptions determine the results that one obtains.

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  1. Geophysical Fluid Dynamics Program, University Princeton, Princeton, New Jersey, 08542, USA

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  1. Centre des Faibles Radioactivit#x00E9;s, Laboratoire Mixte CNRS-CEA, Gif-sur-Yvette, France

    Patrick Buat-Ménard

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Sarmiento, J.L. (1986). Modeling Oceanic Transport of Dissolved Constituents. In: Buat-Ménard, P. (eds) The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling. NATO ASI Series, vol 185. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4738-2_3

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