The Ocean's Vital Skin: Toward an Integrated Understanding of the Sea Surface Microlayer

The Ocean's Vital Skin: Toward an Integrated Understanding of the Sea Surface Microlayer

Despite the huge extent of the ocean's surface, until now relatively little attention has been paid to the sea surface microlayer (SML) as the ultimate interface where heat, momentum and mass exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere takes place. Via the SML, large-scale environmental chang...

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Main Authors: Anja Engel, Hermann W. Bange, Michael Cunliffe, Susannah M. Burrows, Gernot Friedrichs, Luisa Galgani, Hartmut Herrmann, Norbert Hertkorn, Martin Johnson, Peter S. Liss, Patricia K. Quinn, Markus Schartau, Alexander Soloviev, Christian Stolle, Robert C. Upstill-Goddard, Manuela van Pinxteren, Birthe Zäncker
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Frontiers Media S.A. 2017-05-01
Series:Frontiers in Marine Science
Subjects:
sea surface microlayer
air-sea exchange
neuston
aerosols
surface films
gas exchange
Online Access:http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fmars.2017.00165/full

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