Photographs of our buoy-mounted aerosol sampler included in the articles will allow readers to get a better view of our sampler. Please see our latest work and progress report as of March, 1999. The most common types of aerosols are mineral dust, seasalt particles, organic particles, soot, fine cloud condensation particles, and clouds. Natural aerosols are generated by oceans, desert, soil, vegetation, forest fires, and volcanoes. Aerosols also come from man-made activities, such as gasoline, oil, coal and charcoal combustion, biomass burning, cement production, smelting and agriculture.
Aerosols also form when gases are converted to fine particles in the troposphere.
While this report highlights technology, the scientific questions being addressed are fundamental in nature and have a large range of applications in marine and atmospheric sciences. Aerosols and the Oceans . Aerosols are also involved in important biological and chemical processes in the oceans as illustrated with the following examples. The injection of seasalt aerosols into the troposphere can affect the removal of ozone and the scattering of light and other forms of electromagnetic radiation. Dust is deposited on the oceans in short episodic events and in strong seasonal pulses.