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AGU: Journal of Geophysical Research, Oceans

 

Keywords

  • marine aerosol
  • aerosol fluxes
  • sea spray generation function

Index Terms

  • Atmospheric Composition and Structure: Air/sea constituent fluxes
  • Geodesy and Gravity: Ocean/Earth/atmosphere/hydrosphere/cryosphere interactions
  • Oceanography: General: Arctic and Antarctic oceanography
  • Oceanography: Physical: Air/sea interactions
  • Oceanography: Physical: Turbulence, diffusion, and mixing processes
Abstract
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Abstract

Vertical coarse aerosol fluxes in the atmospheric surface layer over the North Polar Waters of the Atlantic

Tomasz Petelski

Institute of Oceanology, Polish Aacademy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland

Jacek Piskozub

Institute of Oceanology, Polish Aacademy of Sciences, Sopot, Poland

Sea spray emission fluxes were calculated on the basis of vertical gradients of the aerosol concentration data collected with a laser particle counter during four polar scientific cruises carried out in the summers of 2000, 2001, 2002, and 2003. The calculated flux values are the first obtained with a gradient method from data measured on the open ocean; such a method has a much better physical basis than any involving calculating fluxes from concentrations measured at one level only. The sea spray generation function we obtained was compared with other functions from the literature. We show that most literature sea spray generation functions are underestimated for the 1–8 μm radius range, some of them by a factor of 6.

Received 16 September 2005; accepted 29 March 2006; published 29 June 2006.

Citation: Petelski, T., and J. Piskozub (2006), Vertical coarse aerosol fluxes in the atmospheric surface layer over the North Polar Waters of the Atlantic, J. Geophys. Res., 111, C06039, doi:10.1029/2005JC003295.

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