Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Diel cycle of sea spray aerosol concentration

  • J. Michel Flores,
  • Guillaume Bourdin,
  • Alexander B. Kostinski,
  • Orit Altaratz,
  • Guy Dagan,
  • Fabien Lombard,
  • Nils Haëntjens,
  • Emmanuel Boss,
  • Matthew B. Sullivan,
  • Gabriel Gorsky,
  • Naama Lang-Yona,
  • Miri Trainic,
  • Sarah Romac,
  • Christian R. Voolstra,
  • Yinon Rudich,
  • Assaf Vardi,
  • Ilan Koren

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25579-3
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 12

Abstract

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Sea spray aerosol (SSA) are an important way through which oceans can influence the atmosphere’s radiative properties. Here, the authors present measurements taken over a 42,000 km ship cruise in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean and show that SSA number concentrations vary over a 24-hour cycle, possibly linked to surface water bubble-bursting dynamics.