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Gas solubility (Henry's law air-water partitioning coefficients)

Description

Gas solubility (Henry's law air-water partitioning coefficients)

Usage

GasSolubility(compound, T, S)

Arguments

compound

e.g. "O2"

T

temperature in Celsius

S

salinity

Details

Applies polynomial fits to empirical data where available (O2,CO2,N2O etc), or where this data is not available, uses the synthesis of Henry's law constants and temperature dependencies along with the salinity relationship from Johnson (2010) which in turn uses Rolf Sander's collection of Henry's law constants

Where available, gas-specific polynomial fits following the model of Weiss 1970 (equation 4) should be used in preference to the Johnson/Sander scheme. This is particularly important for long-lived (i.e. close-to equilibrium) gases such as N2, O2, Ar, CO2 and N2O. For shorter lived / far from equilibrium gases the simpler scheme will generally to a good job.

Value

partitioning coefficient in moles/litre/atmosphere

References

Johnson, M. T. A numerical scheme to calculate temperature and salinity dependent air-water transfer velocities for any gas. Ocean Sci. Discuss. 7, 251-290 (2010).

Sander, R. Compilation of Henry's Law constants for inorganic and organic species of potential importance in environmental chemistry (Version 3), http://www.henrys-law.org, 1999.

Weiss, R, The solubility of nitrogen, oxygen and argon in water and seawater, Deep Sea Research (17), 721-735, 1970


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