Ocean Waves Breaking and Marine Aerosol Fluxes

This book fills a gap in knowledge of breaking waves and their influence on the generation of marine fluxes from ocean surfaces. Based on published data as well as on the author's experience, the text explores in detail the relationship chain of breaking waves, whitecaps coverage, rate of wave energy dissipation, amount of aerosol fluxes rising from a given sea basin, and possible seasonal variations.


Stanislaw Massel is currently a professor and the Director of the Institute of Oceanology in Sopot Poland.