Dust fluxes and iron fertilization in Holocene and Last Glacial Maximum climates

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 14, 2015, Pages 6014-6023

  Lambert, Fabrice ^a,b   Tagliabue, Alessandro ^c   Shaffer, Gary ^d,e,f   Lamy, Frank ^g   Winckler, Gisela ^h   Farias, Laura ⁱ   Gallardo, Laura ^b   De Pol Holz, Ricardo ^e  

^a PONTIFICIA UNIVERSIDAD CATÓLICA DE CHILE   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHILE   (Chile)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^d CENTRO DE ESTUDIOS AVANZADOS EN ZONAS ÁRIDAS CEAZA   (Chile)

^e UNIVERSIDAD DE MAGALLANES   (Chile)

^f UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

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

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

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

atmospheric CO2; carbon cycle; dust; iron fertilization; LGM; paleoclimate

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; DEPOSITION; DUST; GLACIAL GEOLOGY;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELING; CARBON CYCLES; IRON FERTILIZATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; MINERAL DUST AEROSOL; PALEOCLIMATES; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES;

CLIMATE MODELS;

CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DUST; HOLOCENE; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; NUMERICAL MODEL; PALEOCLIMATE; TIMESCALE;

EID: 84938971959     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064250     Document Type: Article

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