Open-ocean deployment of a buoy-mounted aerosol sampler on the Bermuda Testbed Mooring: Aerosol iron and sea salt over the Sargasso Sea

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 53, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 547-560

  Sholkovitz, Edward R ^a   Sedwick, Peter N ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

Aerosols; Air water exchange; Bermuda; Buoy systems; In situ instrumentation; Iron; Sargasso Sea; Sea water; Western North Atlantic

Indexed keywords

DUST; IRON; MOORING; SALTS; SEAWATER; SODIUM;

AIR-WATER EXCHANGE; BERMUDA; BUOY SYSTEMS; IN SITU INSTRUMENTATION; SARGASSO SEA; WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC;

AEROSOLS;

AEROSOL; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BUOY SYSTEM; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; IRON; SAMPLER; SEA SALT;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SARGASSO SEA;

EID: 33644879434     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2005.12.002     Document Type: Article

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