Sea Spray Emission and Its Impacts on Climate

A special issue of Atmosphere (ISSN 2073-4433). This special issue belongs to the section "Biosphere/Hydrosphere/Land–Atmosphere Interactions".

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Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography (MIO UMR 7294), University of Toulon (Seatech), 83130 La Garde, France
Interests: aerosols; air-sea fluxes; sea-spray; climatology

Special Issue Information

Dear Colleagues,

The Special Issue will deal with the physicochemical processes involved with the generation and transport of sea-spray aerosols in the MABL (marine atmospheric boundary layer). We expect papers focusing on:

(1) generation processes through the study of S3F (sea spray source function) formulation, the whitecap fraction, and the bubble spectrum, with consideration of the influence of environmental parameters;
(2) sea-spray properties, that is, jet and film droplets as well as spume drops;
(3) air–sea fluxes with an impact on surface layer characteristics.

Prof. Piazzola Jacques
Guest Editor

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Keywords

  • sea-spray aerosols
  • spumes droplets
  • whitecap
  • air–sea fluxes
  • water composition
  • bubbles

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Riding the Plumes: Characterizing Bubble Scavenging Conditions for the Enrichment of the Sea-Surface Microlayer by Transparent Exopolymer Particles
by Tiera-Brandy Robinson, Helge-Ansgar Giebel and Oliver Wurl
Atmosphere 2019, 10(8), 454; https://doi.org/10.3390/atmos10080454 - 9 Aug 2019
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Abstract
Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) act as a major transport mechanism for organic matter (OM) to the sea surface microlayer (SML) via bubble scavenging, and into the atmosphere via bubble bursting. However; little is known about the effects of bubble scavenging on TEP enrichment [...] Read more.
Transparent exopolymer particles (TEP) act as a major transport mechanism for organic matter (OM) to the sea surface microlayer (SML) via bubble scavenging, and into the atmosphere via bubble bursting. However; little is known about the effects of bubble scavenging on TEP enrichment in the SML. This study examined the effects of several bubbling conditions and algae species on the enrichment of TEP in the SML. TEP enrichment in the SML was enhanced by bubbling, with a larger impact from bubbling rate than bubble size and increasing enrichment over time. Depth profiles showed that any TEP aggregates formed in the underlying water (ULW) were rapidly (<2 min) transported to the SML, and that TEP was entrained in the SML by bubbling. Species experiments determined that the presence of different phytoplankton species and their subsequent release of precursor material further enhance the effectiveness of TEP enrichment via bubble scavenging. Full article
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Sea Spray Emission and Its Impacts on Climate)
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