Abstract
1Department of Marine Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC, USA 2NASA/Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD, USA 3 Joint Research Centre Institute for Environment and Sustainability Climate Change Unit, Ispra, VA, Italy 4 Institut f. Atmosphare und Klima, Zurich, Switzerland 5Department of Chemistry, State University of New York, College of Environmental Science and Forestry, New York, USA
Highlights
A number of contributions address the chemical composition of marine aerosols
Submicron marine aerosols were primarily composed of sea salt, while particles collected during high biological activity largely contained nonsea salt sulfate and organics
The sea-to-atmosphere exchange of reactive volatile organic compounds (VOCs) and their reaction with oxidants presents a potential source for secondary organic aerosol formation
Summary
Petters,1 Elisabetta Vignati,3 Olaf Stetzer,4 Chris Osburn,1 and David J. Their composition, and their effects on clouds and radiation budget remain poorly characterized due to the large areal extent of the oceans and resulting scarcity of observational data. It is not surprising that marine aerosols and associated cloud processes play a major role and present a large uncertainty, in predictions of future climate.
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