简介:CarboncycleisconnectedwiththemostimportantenvironmentalissueofGlobalChange.Asoneofthemajorcarbonreservoirs,oceansplayanimportantpartinthecarboncycle.Inrecentyears,ironseemstogiveusagoodnewsthatoceanicironfertilizationcouldstimulatebiologicalproduc-tivityasCO2sinkofhuman-producedCO2.Oceanicironfertilizationexperimentshaveverifiedthataddingironintohighnutrientlowchlorophyll(HNLC)seawaterscanincreasephytoplanktonproductionandexportorganiccarbon,andhenceincreasecarbonsinkofanthropogenicCO2,toreduceglobalwarming.Insixtydays,theexportorganiccarboncouldreach10000timesforaddingironbymodelpredictionandinsituexperiment,I.e.TheatmosphericCO2uptakeandinorganiccarbondrawdowninupperseawatersalsohavethesamemagnitude.Therefore,oceanicironfertilizationisoneofthestrate-giesforincreasingcarbonsinkofanthropogenicCO2.Thepaperisfocusedontheironfertilization,es-peciallyinsituoceanironexperimentsinorderthatthefutureresearchismoreefficient.
简介:AnewanalyticalmethodusingBack-Propagation(BP)artificialneuralnetworkandkineticspectrophotometryforsimultaneousdeterminationofironandmagnesiumintapwater,theYellowRiverwaterandseawaterisestablished.Byconditionalexperiments,theoptimumanalyticalconditionsandparametersareobtained.Levenberg-Marquart(L-M)algorithmisusedforcalculationinBPneuralnetwork.Thetopologicalstructureofthree-layerBPANNnetworkarchitectureischosenas15-16-2(nodes).Theinitialvalueofgradientcoefficientμisfixedat0.001andtheincreasefactorandreductionfactorofμtakethedefaultvaluesofthesystem.ThedataareprocessedbycomputerswithourownprogramswritteninMATLAB7.0.Therelativestandarddeviationofthecalculatedresultsforironandmanganeseis2.30%and2.67%respectively.Theresultsofstandardadditionmethodshowthatforthetapwater,therecoveriesofironandmanganeseareintherangesof98.0%-104.3%and96.5%-104.5%,andtheRSDisintherangeof0.23%-0.98%;fortheYellowRiverwater(LijindistrictofShandongProvince),therecoveriesofironandmanganeseareintherangesof96.0%-101.0%and98.7%-104.2%,andtheRSDisintherangeof0.13%-2.52%;fortheseawaterinQingdaooffshore,therecoveriesofironandmanganeseareintherangesof95.3%-104.8%and95.3%-104.7%,andtheRSDisintherangeof0.14%-2.66%.Itisfoundthat21commoncationsandanionsdonotinterferewiththedeterminationofironandmanganeseundertheoptimumexperimentalconditions.Thismethodexhibitsgoodreproducibilityandhighaccuracyinthedeterminationofironandmanganeseandcanbeusedforthesimultaneousdeterminationofironandmanganeseintapwaterandnaturalwater.ByusingtheestablishedANN-catalyticspectrophotometricmethod,theironandmanganeseconcentrationsofthesurfaceseawaterat11sitesinQingdaooffshorearedeterminedandtheleveldistributionmapsofironandmanganesearedrawn.
简介:Concentrationsoforganicmatter,ironandmanganeseinthedeepseasurfacesedimentsintheNanshaIslandsseaarea,SouthChinaSeaaremeasured.Horizontalandverticaldistributionsofironandmanganesearediscussed.Theverticaldistributionofironandmanganeseinthesedimentsresultsfromreduction,diffusion,andredepositionofmanganese(oriron)oxideandhydroxideinthesediment.Therearethemaximaofironandmanganeseinsolidphaseinthetopofthesediment,whichiscausedbythepenetrationofO2andtheupwardfluxofMn2+(orFe2+).Manganesebacteriaplayaveryimportantroleinthecycleofsolid-phaseironandmanganeseintheoceanenvironment.ManganesebacteriaoxidizeMn2+(orFe2+)indissolvedstatetoMn4+(orFe3+)inoxidizedstateundertheaerobiccondition,whereastheyreduceironandmanganeseinanaerobicconditions.