The underappreciated role of anthropogenic sources in atmospheric soluble iron flux to the Southern Ocean

Abstract The atmospheric deposition of soluble (bioaccessible) iron enhances ocean primary productivity and subsequent atmospheric CO2 sequestration in iron-limited ocean basins, especially the Southern Ocean. While anthropogenic sources have been recently suggested to be important in some northern...

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Main Authors: Mingxu Liu, Hitoshi Matsui, Douglas S. Hamilton, Kara D. Lamb, Sagar D. Rathod, Joshua P. Schwarz, Natalie M. Mahowald
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2022-04-01
Series:npj Climate and Atmospheric Science
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41612-022-00250-w