Ice sheets as a significant source of highly reactive nanoparticulate iron to the oceans

Nature Communications

Volumn 5, Issue , 2014, Pages

  Hawkings, Jon R ^a   Wadham, Jemma L ^a   Tranter, Martyn ^a   Raiswell, Rob ^b   Benning, Liane G ^b   Statham, Peter J ^c   Tedstone, Andrew ^d   Nienow, Peter ^d   Lee, Katherine ^a   Telling, Jon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON; NANOPARTICLE; WATER; METAL NANOPARTICLE;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EUPHOTIC ZONE; GLOBAL WARMING; ICE SHEET; ICEBERG; IRON; MARINE POLLUTION; PARTICLE SIZE; POLLUTANT SOURCE; RUNOFF;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; CLIMATE; DUST; GLACIAL PERIOD; GREENLAND; ICE SHEET; ICEBERG; MELTING POINT; PARTICLE RESUSPENSION; SEA; SPECIES DIFFERENTIATION; WARMING; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE COVER;

ARCTIC; GREENLAND; GREENLAND ICE SHEET;

ANTARCTIC REGIONS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GREENLAND; ICE COVER; IRON; METAL NANOPARTICLES; OCEANS AND SEAS;

EID: 84901317352     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms4929     Document Type: Article

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