The aim of this paper is to determine an accurate formulation for the sea-spray source function characteristic for the North-Western Mediterranean. To this end, the MACMod aerosol transport model was implemented in the study area using different sea-state dependent flux formulations. The simulations were compared to a large data set of aerosol size distributions acquired over the last ten years in the study area, yielding the evolution of the sea-spray concentrations with increasing fetch and hence, with the development of the wave field. This allowed for an improvement of the Demoisson et al. (2013) sea-spray source function (S3F) for the Mediterranean. The new formulation extends its validity to shorter fetch and larger radii and turned out to be most suitable for predicting the atmospheric concentrations of sea-spray aerosols in this region. © 2018 Elsevier Ltd

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使用西北地中海气溶胶浓度测量开发依赖于获取的海喷雾源函数

本文的目的是确定地中海西北部海喷雾源函数特征的准确公式。为此，MACMod 气溶胶传输模型在研究区使用不同的海况相关通量公式实施。将模拟结果与过去十年在研究区获得的大量气溶胶粒径分布数据集进行了比较，得出海喷雾浓度随取力的增加以及波场的发展而演变。这使得 Demoisson 等人的改进成为可能。(2013) 地中海的海喷雾源函数 (S3F)。新公式将其有效性扩展到更短的获取和更大的半径，结果证明最适合预测该地区海喷雾气溶胶的大气浓度。