MARINE CHEMISTRY: MAR 441/541


This page contains supplementary information/figures of use to students enrolled in this course (but, if you're here by accident, don't let that discourage you from browsing!).

Electronic Articles/Sites of Interest

Element Distributions in Seawater: Nozaki electronic article in EOS on AGU Web site. (Also: updated periodic table from Y. Nozaki, 2001 with reference list.)  There is also the MBARI Periodic Table of Elements in the Ocean which has profiles, some references, and example data.

Stanley, Hardie & Blaustein---Hypercalcification: Paleontology Links Plate Tectonics and Geochemistry to Sedimentology; downloadable article from GSA Today, Feb. 1999

Gutzler---Evaluating Global Warming: A Post-1990s Perspective; downloadable article from GSA Today, Oct. 2000

NOAA-PMEL Hydrothermal Vent Geochemistry Web Page

The IOC's Ocean Portal (A useful source of oceanographic data and information)


Ocean Property Sections and Maps

Click on the items below to view jpeg images. Most of these images were created from data in the NOAA National Oceanographic Data Center (NODC) World Ocean Atlas 1994 using the tools and data available on the Web Server of the Division of Physical Oceanography, Ocean Research Institute, University of Tokyo:

http://cer.ori.u-tokyo.ac.jp/toolmap/Levitus-map.html

Similar plotting can be done using NOAA PMEL's Ferret system, available at:

http://ferret.wrc.noaa.gov/Ferret/ (click on Live Access Server)

Also, check out:

Ocean Data View: An excellent (and free) graphics program for visualizing oceanographic data by R. Schlitzer of the Alfred Wegener Institute, Bremerhaven; one can also download WOCE data from this site.

 

Meridional Sections in the Atlantic

Meridional Sections in the Pacific

        Oxygen and Potential Density (WOCE Pacific Data)

Maps

Surface Ocean: Salinity, Oxygen, Nitrate

600 meters: Oxygen

4000 meters: Oxygen, Phosphate

January 1990 Surface Ocean - Atmosphere pCO2 difference (from T. Takahashi's Web Page at Lamont)

Oxygen & Salinity at the Oxygen Minimum in the Gulf of Mexico


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