Eolian dust input to the Subarctic North Pacific

Earth and Planetary Science Letters

Volumn 387, Issue , 2014, Pages 252-263

  Serno, Sascha ^a,b   Winckler, Gisela ^a,c   Anderson, Robert F ^a,c   Hayes, Christopher T ^a,c   McGee, David ^d   Machalett, Björn ^e,f   Ren, Haojia ^a   Straub, Susanne M ^a   Gersonde, Rainer ^g   Haug, Gerald H ^h  

^a International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^d MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^e HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^f BENTLEY UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^h GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Eolian dust; Helium 4; INOPEX; REE; Subarctic North Pacific; Th 232

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; EXPLORATORY GEOCHEMISTRY; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; IRON; NUTRIENTS; RARE EARTHS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; VOLCANOES;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; EOLIAN DUST; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; HELIUM 4; HIGH NUTRIENT LOW CHLOROPHYLLS; INOPEX; NORTH PACIFIC;

DUST;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; EOLIAN DEPOSIT; GRAIN SIZE; HELIUM; OPEN OCEAN; RARE EARTH ELEMENT; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; THORIUM ISOTOPE; TRACER;

JAPAN; KURIL ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SAKHALIN;

EID: 84890585513     PISSN: 0012821X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.epsl.2013.11.008     Document Type: Article

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