Influence of changes in the degree of saturation of the surface waters, with respect to the major atmospheric gases, on the aerosol productivity of an individual whitecap has now been inferred from results recently obtained using the University of Connecticut's Whitecap Simulation Tank IV. As the level of dissolved oxygen increased from 100% saturation to 130%, i.e., to a significant degree of supersaturation, the production of aerosol droplets by the whitecap generated by a standard laboratory breaking wave was found to increase by a factor of 2.4 in the case of submicron radius droplets, while the generation of larger droplets (r>2.5 μm) was observed to increase by at least a factor of 4.0. As a consequence of these findings, a multiplier, defined in terms of the degree of gas saturation, has been introduced as a term in the various sea surface aerosol generation models. ¿American Geophysical Union 1990