Statistics of bubble plumes generated by breaking surface waves

This dataset is an accompaniment to the paper titled "Statistics of
bubble plumes generated by breaking surface waves" by Derakhti et al,
in the Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans. It includes extensive
observations from arrays of freely drifting SWIFT buoys and shipboard
systems, enabling concurrent high-resolution measurements of wind, waves,
and bubble plumes. This dataset allowed us to examine the dependence of
the penetration depth and fractional surface area (e.g., whitecap
coverage) of bubble plumes generated by breaking surface waves on various
wind and wave parameters over a wide range of sea state conditions in the
North Pacific Ocean, including storms with sustained winds up to 22 m s-1
and significant wave heights up to 10 m.  Notably, this study
provides the first field evidence of a direct relation between bubble
plume penetration depth and whitecap coverage, suggesting that the volume
of bubble plumes could be estimated by remote sensing techniques.