Near-surface measurements of sea spray aerosol production over whitecaps in the open ocean

Simultaneous measurements of near-surface aerosol (0.12 R R R 80 < 1 μm, but to drop off more rapidly with increasing particle size for larger particles. Estimates of the mean sea spray flux were made by scaling the whitecap production fluxes with in situ estimates of whitecap fraction. The sea spray fluxes are also compared with simultaneous individual eddy covariance flux estimates, and with a sea spray source function derived from them.