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Atmospheric loadings of marine aerosol during a Hebridean cyclone
Author(s) -
Smith M. H.,
Consterdine I. E.,
Park P. M.
Publication year - 1989
Publication title -
quarterly journal of the royal meteorological society
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.744
H-Index - 143
eISSN - 1477-870X
pISSN - 0035-9009
DOI - 10.1002/qj.49711548610
Subject(s) - aerosol , wind speed , cyclone (programming language) , atmosphere (unit) , environmental science , atmospheric sciences , sea salt , sea spray , oceanography , meteorology , geology , climatology , geography , engineering , embedded system , field programmable gate array
During a marine aerosol field trial at a coastal site in the Outer Hebrides, a depression formed in the North Atlantic, and moved directly over the site. Wind speeds on site gusted past 100m.p.h., and some data were gathered at very high wind speeds. We found that the volume of sea salt aerosol at 30 ms −1 was more than an order of magnitude higher than that at 15 ms −1 . This is contrary to previous, rather speculative, findings that the aerosol loadings of the atmosphere became less sensitive to wind speed as the wind speed increases beyond 15 ms −1 .