The Production, Distribution, and Bacterial Enrichment of the Sea-Salt Aerosol

It is often difficult to go back through time to find who did the pioneer work in a given area of research. This is not the case for the sea-salt aerosol. Throughout the early years of this century a few papers on the subject appeared in the literature, but they contained little quantitative information. But all this changed in the late 1940’s with the appearance of the first of several pioneer papers by Woodcock. His first paper (Woodcock and Gifford, 1949) described in detail the technique of obtaining the sea-salt particle size distribution. In a later paper Woodcock (1952) presented his ideas on the role of the giant sea-salt particles in the formation of raindrops, and in 1953 he published a paper that for the first time showed the salt particle distribution as a function of wind speed. Though numerous investigators have followed in Woodcock’s footsteps, his 1953 paper is still relevant and extensively quoted today.

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