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Mariners have long been aware of the ability of strong winds at sea to generate large amounts of spray, and its occurrence even forms part of the definition of the Beaufort wind scale. More recently, scientific curiosity about the contribution of sea spray to sea-air fluxes of heat and water vapour has led to significant progress in their quantification. Yet the fact that this is a difficult field and that there remain large gaps in our understanding of it is perhaps best illustrated by the recent, and at times heated, exchanges in the literature (Hasse 1992; Andreas 1994a; Katsaros, De Leeuw 1994; Andreas 1994b; Andreas et al. 1995; Andreas, DeCosmo this volume).
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Kepert, J., Fairall, C., Bao, JW. (1999). Modelling the Interaction Between the Atmospheric Boundary Layer and Evaporating Sea Spray Droplets. In: Geernaert, G.L. (eds) Air-Sea Exchange: Physics, Chemistry and Dynamics. Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 20. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-015-9291-8_14
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