Iron fertilisation and century-scale effects of open ocean dissolution of olivine in a simulated CO2 removal experiment

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 11, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Hauck, Judith ^a   Köhler, Peter ^a   Wolf Gladrow, Dieter ^a   Völker, Christoph ^a  

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

Author keywords

biological carbon pump; carbon dioxide removal; enhanced weathering; geoengineering; iron fertilisation; ocean alkalinisation

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; CLOCK AND DATA RECOVERY CIRCUITS (CDR CIRCUITS); DISSOLUTION; IRON; OCEANOGRAPHY; OLIVINE; PH; SILICATE MINERALS;

CARBON DIOXIDE REMOVAL; GEOENGINEERING; IRON FERTILISATION; IRON-CONTAINING MINERALS; MARINE CARBON CYCLE; OCEAN ACIDIFICATIONS; OCEAN ALKALINISATION; OCEAN FERTILISATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

ACIDIFICATION; ALKALINIZATION; BIOLOGICAL PUMP; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISSOLUTION; FERTILIZER APPLICATION; IRON; OLIVINE; OPEN OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; SILICIC ACID;

EID: 84959419057     PISSN: 17489318     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/11/2/024007     Document Type: Article

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