Abstract:
Marine atmospheric chemistry is a frontier interdisciplinary which combines marine chemistry and atmospheric chemistry. It is a science to study the constitutions, transportation dynamics, sources and sinks as well as seaair fluxes of chemical species in the oceanatmosphere system, and to distinguish and predict the impact of manmade and natural effects on global climate change and regional marine ecosystems. The progress of marine atmospheric chemistry has also benefited from the development of the seaair observation system and engineering technology innovations, including the measurements of trace elements, the determination of complex forms and the in situ monitoring. Marine atmospheric chemistry science in China took the first step in 1980s. Succeed in the establishments of coastal observation stations in China, offshore and ocean investigation and crosssectional underway surveys, the Antarctic and Arctic stations, China has built up a stereoscopy system for the observations of marine atmosphere chemistry key process, such as the atmospheremarine biogeochemical cycle, carbon, nitrogen, sulfur, phosphorus and iron and their seaair fluxes. With the achievements in the study of seaair cycle of carbon and nitrogen and ocean acidification, seaair exchange and gas to particle transformation as well as climate effect of sulfur, China has updated a bath of knowledge that attracted the concerns from the international communities. The built up of a large scale observing network covering the areas from near shore to ocean and the polar regions has also made progress in this fields.