Fertilizing the Amazon and equatorial Atlantic with West African dust

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 14, 2010, Pages

  Bristow, Charlie S ^a   Hudson Edwards, Karen A ^a   Chappell, Adrian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EARTH (PLANET); MINERALS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SILICATE MINERALS; TRACE ELEMENTS;

AFRICAN DUST; AMAZON RAIN FOREST; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC MINERAL DUST; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DUST SAMPLES; EARTH'S CLIMATE; MINERAL DUST; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SOURCE AREA; SOUTH AMERICA;

DUST;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; DUST; IRON; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHOSPHORUS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RAINFOREST; TRACE ELEMENT;

AMAZONIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); BODELE; CHAD;

EID: 77955288760     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL043486     Document Type: Article

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