On the Measurement of the Transfer of Gases across the Air–Sea Interface

Joost A. Businger Department of Atmospheric Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle, Washington

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Abstract

An outline is given of the procedure for obtaining the gas transfer across the air–sea interface when the heat flux from the water to the surface is known. An essential assumption is similarity between the fluxes of heat and other scalar quantities, such as trace gases.

Corresponding author address: Dr. Joost A. Businger, 650 Square Harbor Lane, Anacortes, WA 98221.

Abstract

An outline is given of the procedure for obtaining the gas transfer across the air–sea interface when the heat flux from the water to the surface is known. An essential assumption is similarity between the fluxes of heat and other scalar quantities, such as trace gases.

Corresponding author address: Dr. Joost A. Businger, 650 Square Harbor Lane, Anacortes, WA 98221.

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