Dust deposition: Iron source or sink? A case study

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2107-2124

  Ye, Y ^a   Wagener, T ^b,d   Volker C ^a   Guieu, C ^c   Wolf Gladrow, D A ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^d STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; AGGREGATION; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; DISSOLVED LOAD; DUST; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; ESTIMATION METHOD; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IRON; LIGAND; MAGNITUDE; MARINE POLLUTION; MESOCOSM; MOBILIZATION; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; PARTICULATE MATTER; POLLUTANT REMOVAL; POLLUTANT SOURCE; POLLUTION CONTROL; REACTION KINETICS; SOLUBILIZATION; TIMESCALE;

EID: 80051689544     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-2107-2011     Document Type: Article

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