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ArticlePhilosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences2016

How well can we quantify dust deposition to the ocean?

R F Anderson, H Cheng, R L Edwards, M Q Fleisher, C T Hayes, K-F Huang, D Kadko, P J Lam, W M Landing, Y Lao and 7 more

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Article in Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences, 2016. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 5 papers.

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5 citing papers in PubMed.

  1. Article
  2. Shallow particulate organic carbon regeneration in the South Pacific Ocean.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2019
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  3. Highly bioavailable dust-borne iron delivered to the Southern Ocean during glacial periods.Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America · 2018
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  5. Trace element and isotope deposition across the air-sea interface: progress and research needs.Philosophical transactions. Series A, Mathematical, physical, and engineering sciences · 2016
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17 authors.

R F AndersonLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA boba@ldeo.columbia.edu.ORCID 0000-0002-8472-2494
H ChengDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
R L EdwardsDepartment of Earth Sciences, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, MN 55455, USA.
M Q FleisherLamont-Doherty Earth Observatory, Columbia University, Palisades, NY 10964, USA.
C T HayesDepartment of Marine Science, University of Southern Mississippi, Stennis Space Center, MS 39529, USA.
K-F HuangInstitute of Earth Sciences, Academia Sinica, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China.
D KadkoApplied Research Center, Florida International University, Miami, FL 33174, USA.
P J LamDepartment of Ocean Sciences, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA 95064, USA.
W M LandingDepartment of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.
Y LaoDepartment of Laboratory Services, Massachusetts Water Resources Authority, 190 Tafts Avenue, Winthrop, MA 02152, USA.
Y LuEarth Observatory of Singapore, 50 Nanyang Avenue, Singapore 639798, Republic of Singapore.
C I MeasuresDepartment of Oceanography, University of Hawaii, Honolulu, HI 96822, USA.
S B MoranCollege of Fisheries and Ocean Sciences, University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK 99775, USA.
P L MortonDepartment of Earth, Ocean and Atmospheric Science, Florida State University, Tallahassee, FL 32306, USA.
D C OhnemusBigelow Laboratory for Ocean Sciences, East Boothbay, ME 04544, USA.
L F RobinsonSchool of Earth Sciences, University of Bristol, Queens Road, Bristol BS8 1RJ, UK.
R U ShelleyLEMAR/UMR CNRS 6539/IUEM, Technopôle Brest-Iroise, Place Nicolas Copernic, Plouzané 29280, France.

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Deposition of continental mineral aerosols (dust) in the Eastern Tropical North Atlantic Ocean, between the coast of Africa and the Mid-Atlantic Ridge, was estimated using several strategies based on the measurement of aerosols, trace metals dissolved in seawater, particulate material filtered from the water column, particles collected by sediment traps and sediments. Most of the data used in this synthesis involve samples collected during US GEOTRACES expeditions in 2010 and 2011, although some results from the literature are also used. Dust deposition generated by a global model serves as a reference against which the results from each observational strategy are compared. Observation-based dust fluxes disagree with one another by as much as two orders of magnitude, although most of the methods produce results that are consistent with the reference model to within a factor of 5. The large range of estimates indicates that further work is needed to reduce uncertainties associated with each method before it can be applied routinely to map dust deposition to the ocean. Calculated dust deposition using observational strategies thought to have the smallest uncertainties is lower than the reference model by a factor of 2-5, suggesting that the model may overestimate dust deposition in our study area.This article is part of the themed issue 'Biological and climatic impacts of ocean trace element chemistry'.

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aerosolsdustGEOTRACESnortheast tropical Atlantic

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PMID29035251
PMCPMC5069522

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