Iron Biogeochemistry in the High Latitude North Atlantic Ocean

• Published in: Scientific Reports
• Main Authors: Achterberg, Eric P., Steigenberger, Sebastian, Marsay, Chris M., LeMoigne, Frédéric A. C., Painter, Stuart C., Baker, Alex R., Connelly, Douglas P., Moore, C. Mark, Tagliabue, Alessandro, Tanhua, Toste
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Nature Publishing Group UK 2018
• Subjects: Article; Reykjanes; Eyjafjallajökull; Iceland; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5775377/; http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29352137; https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-018-19472-1

Iron (Fe) is an essential micronutrient for marine microbial organisms, and low supply controls productivity in large parts of the world’s ocean. The high latitude North Atlantic is seasonally Fe limited, but Fe distributions and source strengths are poorly constrained. Surface ocean dissolved Fe (D...