The effect of oil films on water evaporation and oxygen content in sea waterJournal GeoJournal
Publisher Springer Netherlands
ISSN 0343-2521 (Print) 1572-9893 (Online)
Issue Volume 16, Number 1 / January, 1988
DOI 10.1007/BF02626367
Pages 19-24
Subject Collection Earth and Environmental Science
SpringerLink Date Friday, May 04, 2007
http://www.springerlink.com/content/v1n51112t0470m58/
The effect of oil films on water evaporation and oxygen content in sea water
Anikiev V. V. 1, Mishukov V. F. 1, Moiseevsky G. N. 1 and Tkalin A. V. 2
(1) USSR Academy of Sciences, Far Eastern Branch, Pacific Oceanological Institute, 7 Radio Street, 690032 Vladivostok, USSR
(2) Far Eastern Regional Research Institute, Goskomhydromet, USSR
Abstract The paper covers some results of laboratory and nature experiments on studying the effect of oil films on water evaporation rate and oxygen concentration in sea water.
It is demonstrated that oil films on the sea surface reduce the rate of water evaporation by 15 to 33% due to diffusion resistance of oil film as well as energy resistance of monolayer of surface active substances at the film-water interface.
Large oil spots may cause, in areas oversaturated with oxygen, increase of oxygen concentration in sea water under the oil spot due to decrease of gas exchange rate at the sea-atmosphere interface.
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