Fertilization potential of volcanic dust in the low-nutrient low-chlorophyll western North Pacific subtropical gyre: Satellite evidence and laboratory study

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2011, Pages

  Lin, I I ^a   Hu, Chuanmin ^b   Li, Yuan Hui ^c   Ho, Tung Yuan ^d   Fischer, Tobias P ^e   Wong, George T F ^d,f   Wu, Jingfeng ^g   Huang, Chih Wei ^a,d   Chu, D Allen ^h   Ko, Dong S ⁱ   Chen, Jen Ping ^a  

^a NATIONAL TAIWAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d RESEARCH CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGES   (Taiwan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF NEW MEXICO   (United States)

^f NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^h NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

ⁱ NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL OPTICAL DEPTHS; AMBIENT WATERS; ANATAHAN VOLCANO; BIOGEOCHEMICAL RESPONSE; BIOLOGICAL ACTIVITIES; CHLOROPHYLL A; DOWN-WELLING; ELEVATED CONCENTRATIONS; FLUORESCENCE LINE HEIGHT; IN-SITU OBSERVATIONS; LABORATORY EXPERIMENTS; LABORATORY STUDIES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; NAVAL RESEARCH LABORATORY; OCEAN CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEAN COLOR SENSOR; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SATELLITE OCEAN COLOR; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; SUBTROPICAL OCEAN; TRICHODESMIUM; VOLCANIC AEROSOLS; VOLCANIC DUST; WATER-LEAVING RADIANCES; WESTERN NORTH PACIFIC;

ANALYTICAL GEOCHEMISTRY; ARID REGIONS; ATMOSPHERIC AEROSOLS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BLOOMS (METAL); CHLOROPHYLL; NASA; NUTRIENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; RESEARCH LABORATORIES; SATELLITE IMAGERY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; VOLCANOES;

EXPERIMENTS;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; ALGAL BLOOM; CHLOROPHYLL A; CYANOBACTERIUM; DUST; FERTILIZATION (REPRODUCTION); GYRE; LABORATORY METHOD; MODIS; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OCEAN COLOR; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OPTICAL DEPTH; PHYTOPLANKTON; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SUBTROPICAL REGION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ANATAHAN; MARIANA ISLANDS; NORTHERN MARIANA ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

ALGAE; TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 79952133624     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GB003758     Document Type: Article

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