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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
Volume 117, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2011JD016549
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- UK Natural Environment Research Council as part of UK SOLAS [NE/C001842/1, NE/G000107/1]
- NERC [NE/C001842/1, NE/G000107/1] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [NE/C001842/1, NE/G000107/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Direct eddy covariance measurements of size-segregated sea spray aerosol fluxes over the open Atlantic Ocean are presented, along with a source function derived from them for a wind speed range of 4 to 18 m s(-1) and a size range of 0.176 < R-80 < 6.61 mu m. This is in broad agreement with other recent estimates of the source function over this size range but shows a more rapid decrease with size above R-80 = 2 mu m than most other functions. The measurements were made during a 3 week cruise in the North Atlantic as part of the UK contribution to the international Surface Ocean-Lower Atmosphere Study (SOLAS) program. They utilized the new high-rate Compact Lightweight Aerosol Spectrometer Probe (CLASP), providing a 16-channel size spectrum (0.17 < R-amb < 9.5 mu m) at 10 Hz, collocated with a sonic anemometer. The measurements demonstrate the high variability in sea spray aerosol flux compared with other air-sea fluxes, both between individual estimates and in the scales contributing to the flux.
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