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Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-587-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-587-2022
© Author(s) 2022. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 18, issue 3
Research article
 | 
03 May 2022
Research article |  | 03 May 2022

Ocean bubbles under high wind conditions – Part 2: Bubble size distributions and implications for models of bubble dynamics

Helen Czerski, Ian M. Brooks, Steve Gunn, Robin Pascal, Adrian Matei, and Byron Blomquist

Data sets

Near-surface bubble size distributions and sonar data in the North Atlantic, 2013 H. Czerski, I. Brooks, S. R. Gunn, A. Matei, and R. Al-Lashi https://doi.org/10.5285/c972e316-2b93-1b4e-e053-6c86abc02285

1D and 2D wave spectra and statistics in the North Atlantic, 2013 I. Brooks https://doi.org/10.5285/c9ae04d6-32d2-73f1-e053-6c86abc0c833

HiWinGS expedition (North Atlantic, October--November 2013) 10 minute meteorological data, NERC EDS British Oceanographic Data Centre NOC H. Czerski and B. W. Blomquist https://doi.org/10.5285/dd2837f0-b721-7b13-e053-6c86abc0cee7

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The bubbles formed by breaking waves at the ocean surface are important because they are thought to speed up the movement of gases like carbon dioxide and oxygen between the atmosphere and ocean. We collected data on the bubbles in the top few metres of the ocean which were created by storms in the North Atlantic. The focus in this paper is the bubble sizes and their position in the water. We saw that there are very predictable patterns and set out what happens to bubbles after a wave breaks.
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