The rôle of capillary waves in oceanic air/water gas exchange

J. R. Saylor

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v51i3.16445

The rôle of capillary waves in oceanic air/water gas exchange

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 51 (1999): Issue 3

By: J. R. Saylor

Open Access

|Jan 1999

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