GAS TRANSFER AT WATER SURFACES

The issue of gas transfer at air-water interfaces has received world wide concern due to its relevance in the budget of climate modifying gases. Research advances made in recent years on the problems are surveyed in the present article. Particular attention was given to some new findings concerning the coherent structure near liquid surface and its relationship with the gas transfer taking place there, which shed new light on the mechanisms of gas transfer at sheared surface. Regarding the gas transfer proc...