The ocean fine spray
@article{GanCalvo2022TheOF, title={The ocean fine spray}, author={Alfonso M. Ga{\~n}{\'a}n-Calvo}, journal={Physics of Fluids}, year={2022} }
An important fraction of the atmospheric aerosols come from the ocean spray originated by the bursting of surface bubbles. A theoretical framework that incorporates the latest knowledge on film and jet droplets from bubble bursting is here proposed, suggesting that the ejected droplet size in the fine and ultrafine (nanometric) spectrum constitute the ultimate origin of primary and secondary sea aerosols through a diversity of physicochemical routes. In contrast to the latest proposals on the…
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