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Fig. 10.
LADAS catamaran is crossing a banded slick during the field measure-
ments. Comparison of the temperature distributions of the two infrared images in-
side and outside the main slick
Schmidt number scaling of the heat transfer velocities according to Eq.
1.2 suggests nearly an order of magnitude reduction in the gas transfer ve-
locity due to the slick (5.1 cm h
-1
and 0.64 cm h
-1
outside and inside the
slick respectively) at a wind speed of 4 m s
-1
.
6 Conclusions
Studies of the air-water gas exchange process by infrared imaging tech-
niques enable local and fast measurements of the heat transfer velocity.
Applying Schmidt number scaling, the obtained gas transfer velocities are
consistent with mass balance methods and are in good agreement for the
