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Flux of Gases across the Air-Sea Interface

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This article describes the use of a two-layer model to estimate the flux of various gases across the air-sea interface.

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Liss, P., Slater, P. Flux of Gases across the Air-Sea Interface. Nature 247, 181–184 (1974). https://doi.org/10.1038/247181a0

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