Mass transfer at the ocean–atmosphere interface: the role of wave breaking, droplets, and bubbles

L Deike - Annual Review of Fluid Mechanics, 2022 - annualreviews.org
Breaking waves modulate the transfer of energy, momentum, and mass between the ocean
and atmosphere, controlling processes critical to the climate system, from gas exchange of …

The biogeochemistry of marine dimethylsulfide

FE Hopkins, SD Archer, TG Bell… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2023 - nature.com
The marine trace gas dimethylsulfide (DMS) supplies sulfur to the atmosphere at a rate of 15–
40 Tg S per year, contributing to the production of atmospheric sulfate aerosols that …

Direct observational evidence of strong CO2 uptake in the Southern Ocean

Y Dong, DCE Bakker, TG Bell, M Yang… - Science …, 2024 - science.org
The Southern Ocean is the primary region for the uptake of anthropogenic carbon dioxide
(CO2) and is, therefore, crucial for Earth's climate. However, the Southern Ocean CO2 flux …

[HTML][HTML] Ocean carbon from space: Current status and priorities for the next decade

RJW Brewin, S Sathyendranath, G Kulk, MH Rio… - Earth-science …, 2023 - Elsevier
The ocean plays a central role in modulating the Earth's carbon cycle. Monitoring how the
ocean carbon cycle is changing is fundamental to managing climate change. Satellite …

Untangling the influence of Antarctic and Southern Ocean life on clouds

MD Mallet, RS Humphries, SL Fiddes… - Elem Sci …, 2023 - online.ucpress.edu
Polar environments are among the fastest changing regions on the planet. It is a crucial time
to make significant improvements in our understanding of how ocean and ice …

[PDF][PDF] Modeling considerations for research on Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement (OAE)

K Fennel, MC Long, C Algar, B Carter… - State of the Planet …, 2023 - sp.copernicus.org
The deliberate increase of ocean alkalinity (referred to as Ocean Alkalinity Enhancement or
OAE) has been proposed as a method for removing CO 2 from the atmosphere. Before OAE …

Gas transfer by breaking waves

L Deike, WK Melville - Geophysical Research Letters, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
The transfer of gases at the ocean‐atmosphere interface impacts weather and climate from
local to global scales, with carbon dioxide (CO2) key to marine life and ecosystems, and …

Reduced air–sea CO2 exchange in the Atlantic Ocean due to biological surfactants

R Pereira, I Ashton, B Sabbaghzadeh, JD Shutler… - Nature …, 2018 - nature.com
Ocean CO2 uptake accounts for 20–40% of the post-industrial sink for anthropogenic CO2.
The uptake rate is the product of the CO2 interfacial concentration gradient and its transfer …

Wind speed and sea state dependencies of air‐sea gas transfer: Results from the high wind speed gas exchange study (HiWinGS)

BW Blomquist, SE Brumer, CW Fairall… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
A variety of physical mechanisms are jointly responsible for facilitating air‐sea gas transfer
through turbulent processes at the atmosphere‐ocean interface. The nature and relative …

A mechanistic sea spray generation function based on the sea state and the physics of bubble bursting

L Deike, BG Reichl, F Paulot - AGU Advances, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Bubbles bursting at the ocean surface are an important source of ocean‐spray aerosol, with
implications on radiative and cloud processes. Yet, very large uncertainties exist on the role …