Real Time Detection of Sodium in Size-segregated Marine Aerosols
Abstract
LONG-TERM GOALS. The long-term goal of this project is to develop a new capability for characterization of marine aerosols, specifically, the capability to make near real-time sodium measurements on individual size-segregated marine aerosols. It involves the development of a field-ready instrument which could carry out the proposed measurements from land based, shipboard or airborne platforms. Such an instrument would allow us to measure the size distribution of seasalt aerosols in air in a variety of sea states and to verify laboratory-derived relationships for the formation of aerosols via sea spray bubble bursting mechanisms. Ultimately, the development and deployment of such an instrument would improve our understanding of the size distribution of seasalt aerosols in marine air and provide data for relating the abundance of these aerosols to remotely observable parameters related to the physical state of the atmosphere and surface ocean. It would allow us to calculate the influence of seasalt-derived particles on the optical properties of the marine aerosol and characterize and predict the variability of this signal.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Sep 30, 1997
- Accession Number
- ADA634286
Entities
People
- Anthony J. Hynes
- Eric S. Saltzman
Organizations
- University of Miami