Sea salt aerosol (SSA) exerts a major influence over a broad reach of geophysics. It is important to the physics and chemistry of the marine atmosphere and to marine geochemistry and biogeochemistry generally. It affects visibility, remote sensing, atmospheric chemistry, and air quality. Sea salt aerosol particles interact with other atmospheric gaseous and aerosol constituents by acting as sinks for condensable gases and suppressing new particle formation, thus influencing the size distribution of these other aerosols and more broadly influencing the geochemical cycles of substances with which they interact. As the key aerosol constituent over much of Earth's surface at present, and all the more so in pre-industrial times, SSA is central to description of Earth's aerosol burden.

Sea Salt Aerosol Production: Mechanisms, Methods, Measurements, and Models - A Critical Review

Air bubbles bursting on artificial seawater in laboratory experiments have been found to inject numerous particles <200 nm diameter into the atmosphere, some experiments showing copious producti ...

https://agupubs.onlinelibrary.wiley.com/doi/pdf/10.1029/2007JD009078

The composition of fragments of bubbles bursting at the ocean surface

X-ray spectrometry of individual Asian dust-storm particles over the Japanese islands and the North Pacific Ocean

Mineral particles collected in china and japan during the same Asian dust-storm event

Aerosol particles were collected at China and Japan in the same spring Asian dust-storm event of 1991 in order to study the change in composition of mineral aerosol particles during long range transport. It was found on the basis of a microchemical analysis that dust particles containing Mg, AI, Si, K, Ca and Fe were a major fraction of the aerosol particles collected at Hohhot and Beijing, China, and Nagasaki, Japan. A large fraction of the mineral aerosol particles was internally mixed with sea salt in Nagasaki. Present study suggests that the internal mixed particles were mainly produced by cloud processes through droplet coalescence.

F.P. Parungo

Papers

Temporal and spatial variations of marine aerosols over the Atlantic Ocean