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Over the past several years whitecap related research has been conducted at University College, Galway. While the details of several aspects of this research are covered in other workshop presentations, we preface this paper with an overview of our activities.
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Spillane, M.C., Monahan, E.C., Bowyer, P.A., Doyle, D.M., Stabeno, P.J. (1986). Whitecaps and Global Fluxes. In: Monahan, E.C., Niocaill, G.M. (eds) Oceanic Whitecaps. Oceanographic Sciences Library, vol 2. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-4668-2_19
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