Antarctic Sea Ice Region as a Source of Biogenic Organic Nitrogen in Aerosols

• Main Authors: Dall'Osto, Manuel, Simó, Rafel
• Format: Conference Object
• Language: unknown
• Published: 2018
• Subjects: Antarctic; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Antarctica; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/190913

POLAR 2018 - XXXV SCAR Meetings and SCAR/IASC Open Science Conference, 19-23 June 2018, Davos, Switzerland.-- 1 page Climate warming affects the development and distribution of sea ice, but at present the evidence of polarecosystem feedbacks on climate through changes in the atmosphere is sparse. By means of synergistic atmospheric and oceanic measurements in the Southern Ocean near Antarctica, we present evidence that the microbiota of sea ice and sea ice-influenced ocean are a previously unknown significant source of atmospheric organic nitrogen, including low molecular weight alkyl-amines. Given the keystone role of nitrogen compounds in aerosol formation, growth and neutralization, our findings call for greater chemical and source diversity in the modelling efforts linking the marine ecosystem to aerosol-mediated climate effects in the Southern Ocean Peer Reviewed