What does temporal variability in aeolian dust deposition contribute to sea-surface iron and chlorophyll distributions?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 7, 2008, Pages

  Aumont, Olivier ^a   Bopp, L ^b   Schulz, M ^b  

^a IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOLS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BIOCHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; DUST; GEOCHEMISTRY; PORPHYRINS; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURFACES;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; AEROSOL MODELLING; AMERICAN GEOPHYSICAL UNION; DUST DEPOSITION; GLOBAL MODELING; GLOBAL SCALING; IRON AVAILABILITY; MODEL RESULTS; OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; OCEAN DYNAMICS; OLIGOTROPHIC REGIONS; PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH; SUBARCTIC PACIFIC; SURFACE CHLOROPHYLL; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME-SCALES; TROPICAL REGIONS;

IRON;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; DEPOSITION; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GROWTH RATE; IRON; MODELING; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA SURFACE; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBARCTIC);

EID: 42949100115     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GL031131     Document Type: Article

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