Antarctica's Dry Valleys: A potential source of soluble iron to the Southern Ocean?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 6, 2015, Pages 1912-1918

  Bhattachan, Abinash ^a   Wang, Lixin ^b   Miller, Molly F ^c   Licht, Kathy J ^b   D'Odorico, Paolo ^a,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c VANDERBILT UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctica; climate change; dust emissions; McMurdo Dry Valleys; soluble iron

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; DUST; IRON; LANDFORMS; MUSICAL INSTRUMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA; DUST EMISSION; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SOLUBLE IRONS; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TRAJECTORY ANALYSIS;

SEDIMENTS;

CLIMATE CHANGE; DEPOSITION; IRON; SEA ICE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MCMURDO DRY VALLEYS;

EID: 84927726171     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063419     Document Type: Article

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