Constraints on soluble aerosol iron flux to the Southern Ocean at the Last Glacial Maximum

Nature Communications

Volumn 6, Issue , 2015, Pages

  Conway, T M ^a,b,c   Wolff, E W ^a,b   Rothlisberger, R ^b,d   Mulvaney, R ^b   Elderfield, H E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^d Bundesamt fur Umweltschutz   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

IRON;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; GLACIAL-INTERGLACIAL CYCLE; ICE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MARINE SEDIMENT; SOLUBILITY;

ANTARCTICA; ARTICLE; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MINERAL DUST; SECONDARY ORGANIC AEROSOL; SOLUBILITY; SOUTH AMERICAN; TEMPERATURE;

ANTARCTICA; DOME CONCORDIA; EAST ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84937905303     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20411723     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ncomms8850     Document Type: Article

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