Polar atmosphere and sea ice biology: what are polar animals breathing?

• Main Author: Dall'Osto, Manuel
• Format: Course Material
• Language: unknown
• Published: CSIC - Instituto de Ciencias del Mar (ICM) 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Antarctic; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10261/195587

2 pages, 1 figure Atmospheric aerosol has effects on heterogeneous and multiphase chemistry, solar radiation transfer and cloud processes. About 7% of the Earth’s surface and about 12% of the world’s oceans are covered by sea ice, sea water that freezes in both Arctic and Antarctic. Sea ice plays an important role in the cycling of climate relevant agents, but our understanding of the sea-ice/water/atmosphere biogeochemical processes is still at its infancy. The physical, chemical and biological processes interact in distinct and complex ways, and cannot be studied independently. This talk - by using the interdisciplinary nature of different research fields - aims to present a range of polar biogeochemical processes being studied at the ICM-CSIC with a number of international collaborators Peer Reviewed