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The Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean

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The top few millimeters of the ocean surface, where properties are most altered relative to deeper water, are often referred to as the sea surface microlayer. Physics, chemistry, and biology of the sea surface microlayer are the subject of this chapter. Very close to the air–sea interface, turbulent mixing is suppressed and molecular diffusion appears to dominate the vertical property transport. The viscous, thermal, and diffusive sublayers close to the ocean surface that exist as characteristic features of the air–sea momentum, heat, and mass transport are considered. Their dynamics are quite complex due to the presence of surface waves, capillary effects, penetrating solar radiation, rainfall, and surface films due to the presence of surfactants. The existing theories of the sea surface microlayer, numerical model parameterizations, available observations and new approaches, including computational fluid dynamics modeling and DNA analysis of the bacterial content of the sea surface microlayer, are critically analyzed in this chapter.

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    Alexander Soloviev

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Soloviev, A., Lukas, R. (2014). Sea Surface Microlayer. In: The Near-Surface Layer of the Ocean. Atmospheric and Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 48. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-7621-0_2

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