The hills are alive with the sounds of gas exchange

Gas transfer between aerated surfaces of burbling alpine brooks and raging montane rivers and the atmosphere was poorly understood. Until Swiss researchers recently calculated the rates of gas exchange in high- and low- energy alpine streams with various slopes and were surprised to find that the tr...

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Published in:Frontiers in ecology and the environment 2019-05, Vol.17 (4), p.195-195
Main Author: Murray, Meghan Miner
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Acoustics
Aeration
Data transfer (computers)
DISPATCHES
Gas exchange
Mathematical analysis
Rivers
Streams
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Summary:Gas transfer between aerated surfaces of burbling alpine brooks and raging montane rivers and the atmosphere was poorly understood. Until Swiss researchers recently calculated the rates of gas exchange in high- and low- energy alpine streams with various slopes and were surprised to find that the traditional equations used to calculate gas transfer, based primarily on data from lowland streams, underestimated their actual rates, in some cases by a factor of 100.
ISSN:1540-9295
1540-9309
DOI:10.1002/fee.2037