Articles | Volume 13, issue 21
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-11073-2013
https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-13-11073-2013
Research article
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13 Nov 2013
Research article |  | 13 Nov 2013

Air–sea dimethylsulfide (DMS) gas transfer in the North Atlantic: evidence for limited interfacial gas exchange at high wind speed

T. G. Bell, W. De Bruyn, S. D. Miller, B. Ward, K. H. Christensen, and E. S. Saltzman

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