... Feature: The Sea Surface Microlayer - Linking the Ocean and Atmosphere Domain Editor-in-Chief: Jody W. Deming, University of Washington, WA, USA Associate Editor: Jeff S. Bowman, Integrative Oceanography Division, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, CA, USA © 2021 The Author(s) 2021...

.... The sea surface microlayer (SML) is a key gate for the introduction of atmospheric BC into the ocean; however, relatively little is known of the effects of BC on bacteria-virus interactions, which can strongly influence microbially mediated processes. To study the impact of BC on bacteria-virus...

... by a northeast winter monsoon (dry season) and southeast summer monsoon (wet season). During the dry season, atmospheric BC concentrations averaged twice those observed during the wet season. In the sea surface microlayer (SML) and underlying water (ULW), concentrations of particulate BC (PBC) averaged 539...

...Nur Ili Hamizah Mustaffa; Mariana Ribas-Ribas; Oliver Wurl; Jody W. Deming Enrichment of fluorescence dissolved organic matter (FDOM) in the sea surface microlayer (SML) provides insights into biogeochemical processes occurring at the sea surface, including cycling of organic matter, photochemistry...

... of trace elements at the air-sea interface, i.e. the sea surface microlayer. In this study, samples of aerosols, sea surface microlayer, and underlying water column were collected in the Florida Keys during a dusty season (July 2014) and non-dusty season (May 2015) and analyzed for the dissolved...

...Peter L. L. Walls; James C. Bird; Jody W. Deming The concentration of microbes and other particulates is frequently enriched in the droplets produced by bursting bubbles. As a bubble rises to the ocean surface, particulates in the bulk liquid can be transported to the sea surface microlayer...

... on this transfer is not fully understood. This work presents dissolved and particulate organic carbon (DOC, POC) concentrations, their enrichment factors in the sea surface microlayer (SML), and equivalent measurements in marine aerosol particles across the Atlantic Ocean. DOC concentrations averaged 161 ± 139...

...Oliver Wurl; Werner Ekau; William M. Landing; Christopher J. Zappa; Jody W. Deming; Jeff Bowman The sea surface microlayer (SML) is the boundary interface between the atmosphere and ocean, covering about 70% of the Earth’s surface. With an operationally defined thickness between 1 and 1000 µm...