The Ocean's Vital Skin: Toward an Integrated Understanding of the Sea Surface Microlayer
The Ocean's Vital Skin: Toward an Integrated Understanding of the Sea Surface Microlayer
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DOI：
10.3389/fmars.2017.00165
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发表时间：
2017-01-01
影响因子：
3.7
通讯作者：
Zaencker, Birthe
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作者：
Engel, Anja;Bange, Hermann W.;Zaencker, Birthe
尽管海洋表面的巨大范围，到目前为止，相对较少的关注已经支付给海洋表面微层（SML）作为最终的界面，在海洋和大气之间的热量，动量和质量交换发生。通过SML，海洋中的大规模环境变化，如变暖，酸化，脱氧和富营养化，可能会影响云的形成，降水和全球辐射平衡。由于生物，化学和物理过程之间的深刻联系，SML的研究可能会揭示全球和区域变化的多种敏感性。因此，了解海洋表面的各种过程，特别是了解作为一个重要和决定性界面的SML，可以为减少海洋-气候反馈方面的不确定性作出重要贡献。这篇评论确定了我们目前对SML的认识中的差距，并强调了需要对海洋-大气界面发生的各种生物，化学和物理过程进行全面和机械的理解。我们主张发展强大的跨学科专业知识和合作，以便在海洋和大气科学之间架起桥梁。虽然这将在方法上提出重大挑战，但这一举措将成为地球系统科学跨学科研究的新榜样。
Despite the huge extent of the ocean's surface, until now relatively little attention has been paid to the sea surface microlayer (SML) as the ultimate interface where heat, momentum and mass exchange between the ocean and the atmosphere takes place. Via the SML, large-scale environmental changes in the ocean such as warming, acidification, deoxygenation, and eutrophication potentially influence cloud formation, precipitation, and the global radiation balance. Due to the deep connectivity between biological, chemical, and physical processes, studies of the SML may reveal multiple sensitivities to global and regional changes. Understanding the processes at the ocean's surface, in particular involving the SML as an important and determinant interface, could therefore provide an essential contribution to the reduction of uncertainties regarding ocean-climate feedbacks. This review identifies gaps in our current knowledge of the SML and highlights a need to develop a holistic and mechanistic understanding of the diverse biological, chemical, and physical processes occurring at the ocean-atmosphere interface. We advocate the development of strong interdisciplinary expertise and collaboration in order to bridge between ocean and atmospheric sciences. Although this will pose significant methodological challenges, such an initiative would represent a new role model for interdisciplinary research in Earth System sciences.