Size spectra of bubbles in the foam patches and of sea salt nuclei over the surf zone

Josef Podzimek

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v36i3.14902

Size spectra of bubbles in the foam patches and of sea salt nuclei over the surf zone

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 36 (1984): Issue 3

By: Josef Podzimek

Open Access

|Jan 1984

Abstract

The size distribution of bubbles in the foam patches and the size distribution of giant chloride nuclei over the surf zone both follow the Nukiyama-Tanassava size distribution function. The slope of the size distribution curve for bubbles depends, however, on the residence time of the foam patch at the ocean surface. The best fit of the sea salt nuclei size distribution curve was found for s = 0.333 in the Nukiyama-Tanassava distribution.

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