Question: please solve this completely and I'll give you upvot Problem 2. Water evaporated from the equatorial Pacific Ocean to form a large air mass with

please solve this completely and I'll give you upvot
please solve this completely and I'll give you upvot Problem 2. Water

Problem 2. Water evaporated from the equatorial Pacific Ocean to form a large air mass with an initial isotopic composition of 8H --94 and 8180=-13.0 %o. This air mass started to move polar-ward and precipitated rain and snow/ice in three stages on its way to the South Pole. Stage 1: between the equator and 45s, it lost 50% of the original moisture as rain at 10C. Stage 2: between 45 and 70's, it lost another 25% as rain at 1C. Stage 3: between 70S and the South Pole, it lost 24% as snow/ice at -10C. Assuming that rain/snow formed in isotopic equilibrium with the air mass moisture and that rain/snow was removed from the air mass without further interactions (Rayleigh model): m (1) Calculate 8'H and 8' values of each fraction of rain/snow precipitated and the remaining air mass as a function of the fraction of remaining water vapor in the air mass (from 1.00 to 0.01 with a 0.01 step. (2) Plot PH and 8'80 values of the air mass and snow/ice precipitation: a) as a function of fand b) on the 8H - 8!diagram. Discuss briefly your observations of the two plots. (3) Precipitations in the Southern High Plains have 8'80 values ranging from -20 to as high as +2 %. of this, what range of the 8'O values can your simple Rayleigh-type precipitation model explain with what corresponding frange? If the entire range (-20 to +2 %o) cannot be explained by the model, what factors do you think might have contributed to that? Ice(snow)-vapor fractionation (a=Rice/Ryapor): -40 to 0 C D/H: 1000ln a = -94.5+16289000/T2 18O/: 1000ln a=11839/T-28.22 Water-vapor fractionation (a=Rwater/Rvapor): 0 to 100C D/H: 1000ln a =24844000/T2-76248/T+52.6 180/O: 1000ln a=1137000/T2-415.6/T-2.06 (T: Kelvin) Problem 2. Water evaporated from the equatorial Pacific Ocean to form a large air mass with an initial isotopic composition of 8H --94 and 8180=-13.0 %o. This air mass started to move polar-ward and precipitated rain and snow/ice in three stages on its way to the South Pole. Stage 1: between the equator and 45s, it lost 50% of the original moisture as rain at 10C. Stage 2: between 45 and 70's, it lost another 25% as rain at 1C. Stage 3: between 70S and the South Pole, it lost 24% as snow/ice at -10C. Assuming that rain/snow formed in isotopic equilibrium with the air mass moisture and that rain/snow was removed from the air mass without further interactions (Rayleigh model): m (1) Calculate 8'H and 8' values of each fraction of rain/snow precipitated and the remaining air mass as a function of the fraction of remaining water vapor in the air mass (from 1.00 to 0.01 with a 0.01 step. (2) Plot PH and 8'80 values of the air mass and snow/ice precipitation: a) as a function of fand b) on the 8H - 8!diagram. Discuss briefly your observations of the two plots. (3) Precipitations in the Southern High Plains have 8'80 values ranging from -20 to as high as +2 %. of this, what range of the 8'O values can your simple Rayleigh-type precipitation model explain with what corresponding frange? If the entire range (-20 to +2 %o) cannot be explained by the model, what factors do you think might have contributed to that? Ice(snow)-vapor fractionation (a=Rice/Ryapor): -40 to 0 C D/H: 1000ln a = -94.5+16289000/T2 18O/: 1000ln a=11839/T-28.22 Water-vapor fractionation (a=Rwater/Rvapor): 0 to 100C D/H: 1000ln a =24844000/T2-76248/T+52.6 180/O: 1000ln a=1137000/T2-415.6/T-2.06 (T: Kelvin)

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