Oceanologia (Jan 2014)

Studies of vertical coarse aerosol fluxes in the boundary layer over the Baltic Sea* This work was supported through the National Science Centre grant NN 306315536; support for this study was also provided by the project ‘Satellite Monitoring of the Baltic Sea Environment – SatBałtyk’ funded by European Union through European Regional Development Fund contract No. POIG 01.01.02-22-011/09.

  • Tomasz Petelski,
  • Piotr Markuszewski,
  • Przemysław Makuch,
  • Andrzej Jankowski,
  • Anna Rozwadowska

DOI
https://doi.org/10.5697/oc.56-4.697
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 56, no. 4
pp. 697 – 710

Abstract

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The results of studies of the vertical gradient of aerosol concentration measurements made during cruises of r/v ‘Oceania’ between 2008 and 2012 are presented. Using the results from those experiments, sea spray emission fluxes were calculated for all particles of sizes in the range from 0.5 μm to 8 μm, as well as for particles of sizes from fifteen channels of 0.5 μm width. The information obtained was further used to calculate the Sea Salt Generation Function (SSGF) for the Baltic Sea depending on the wind speed and the aerosol size distribution.

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