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The Ocean as a Source for Atmospheric Particles

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The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling

Part of the book series: NATO ASI Series ((ASIC,volume 185))

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Recognizing that descriptions of the physical mechanisms whereby sea-salt particles are introduced into the atmosphere have been treated in some detail by Blanchard (1983) in an earlier publication in this series (Liss and Slinn, 1983), it seems appropriate in this contribution to critique several explicit models for the estimation of the number of sea-salt aerosols per size interval, per unit area of the sea surface, per unit time, produced by these mechanisms under specified meteorological conditions, and in so doing illustrate the state of knowledge of the various processes that link the flux of sea-salt aerosol up from the sea surface to the wind speed measured at an elevation of 10 meters.

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Monahan, E.C. (1986). The Ocean as a Source for Atmospheric Particles. In: Buat-Ménard, P. (eds) The Role of Air-Sea Exchange in Geochemical Cycling. NATO ASI Series, vol 185. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4738-2_6

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