Primary and Secondary Organic Marine Aerosol and Oceanic Biological Activity: Recent Results and New Perspectives for Future Studies

Table 1

Median, minimum and maximum (in brackets) relative contribution of the main marine aerosol components to the analyzed total mass, expressed as percentages. Median values are reported only when greater than zero. “𝑛” indicates the number of samples.

[%]	HBA (𝑛 = 5)	LBA (𝑛 = 7)
nssSO4^-2	50 (38–57)	22 (5–27)
NH4^+	7 (6–9)	1 (0–3)
NO3^-	(0–1)	1 (1–2)
WSOM	23 (11–33)	6 (0–11)
sea salt	20 (6–25)	65 (59–77)
WIOM	7 (2–10)	6 (2–17)