Do dust emissions from sparsely vegetated regions dominate atmospheric iron supply to the Southern Ocean?

Journal of Geophysical Research

Volumn 122, Issue 7, 2017, Pages 3987-4002

  Ito, Akinori ^a   Kok, Jasper F ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; IRON; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SHRUBLAND; SOIL MOISTURE; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; VEGETATION COVER;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 85017652397     PISSN: 01480227     EISSN: 21562202     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016JD025939     Document Type: Article

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