Examining links between dust deposition and phytoplankton response using ice cores

• Published in: Aeolian Research
• Main Authors: Hooper, James, Mayewski, Paul, Marx, Samuel, Henson, Stephanie, Potocki, Mariusz, Sneed, Sharon, Handley, Mike, Gassó, Santiago, Fischer, Matthew, Saunders, Krystyna M.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2019
• Subjects: Yukon; Pacific; South Georgia Island
• Online Access: http://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521936/; https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/521936/1/personal_copy_FINAL.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.aeolia.2018.11.001

Dust is a major source of nutrients to remote ocean environments, influencing primary productivity (PP). Enhanced oceanic PP causes drawdown of atmospheric CO2 and is considered likely to be a driver of climate variability on glacial-interglacial timeframes. However, the scale of this relationship a...