Wade R. McGillis

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors explore the possibility of a cubic relationship between gas exchange and instantaneous (or short-term) wind speed, and its impact on global air-sea fluxes, based on the theoretical foundation for such a dependency is based on retardation of gas transfer at low to intermediate winds by surfactants, which are ubiquitous in the world's oceans, and bubbleenhanced transfer at higher winds.

TL;DR: It is shown how the use of global variables of environmental forcing that have recently become available and gas exchange relationships that incorporate the main forcing factors will lead to improved estimates of global and regional air-sea gas fluxes based on better fundamental physical, chemical, and biological foundations.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new mechanistic model based on surface water turbulence was proposed to predict gas exchange for a range of aquatic and marine processes, showing that the gas transfer rate varies linearly with the turbulent dissipation rate to the 1/4 power.

TL;DR: In this article, direct covariance air-sea CO2 flux measurements over the open ocean are reported, which quantify the transfer of CO2 between the atmosphere and ocean over a range of wind speeds and improve the understanding of the environmental factors controlling the flux.

TL;DR: Inflected boundary layers, suggestive of incipient separation, were observed sporadically, but appeared to be stabilized at later phases of the undulatory cycle, which may be evidence of hydrodynamic sensing and response towards the optimization of swimming performance.