Gas exchange between the sea and the atmosphere and the mechanism of formation of a microbubble layer under the surface-tension film of the sea surface derived from in situ measurements of self-radiations of these media in the infrared band

Abstract

From the in situ measurements of the atmospheric and sea-surface self-radiation in the infrared band and by means of theoretical investigation, it has been found that the discovered earlier microbubble air layer located under the surface-tension film of the sea surface is a universal formation in the structure of the sea surface of the cold boundary layer, which emerges owing to the fundamental processes of heat and gas exchange occurring at the interface of the atmosphere and the sea surface.