Earth System Science Theme Leader
Lead Research Organisation:
University of East Anglia
Department Name: Environmental Sciences
Abstract
This research has tow components. 1. The work will use ships of opportunity (ships engaged in other activities, commercial or research) as platforms to collect aerosol samples in remote regions of the ocean. The results will allow us to estimate how important atmospheric supply of key nutrients such as nitrogen, phosphorus and iron is to the productivity of the oceans, and how this may change in the future. 2. The work will look at what controls the cycling of the key nutrient nitrogen in the Northern North Sea and how this affects the productivity of phytoplankton which ultimately influences the production of fish.
Organisations
Publications
Shi Z
(2011)
Minor effect of physical size sorting on iron solubility of transported mineral dust
in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
Powell C
(2015)
Estimation of the Atmospheric Flux of Nutrients and Trace Metals to the Eastern Tropical North Atlantic Ocean*
in Journal of the Atmospheric Sciences
Pollard RT
(2009)
Southern Ocean deep-water carbon export enhanced by natural iron fertilization.
in Nature
Martino M
(2014)
Western Pacific atmospheric nutrient deposition fluxes, their impact on surface ocean productivity
in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Lin C
(2012)
An assessment of the significance of sulphate sources over the Atlantic Ocean based on sulphur isotope data
in Atmospheric Environment
Lesworth T
(2010)
Aerosol organic nitrogen over the remote Atlantic Ocean
in Atmospheric Environment
Johnson M
(2010)
A numerical scheme to calculate temperature and salinity dependent air-water transfer velocities for any gas
in Ocean Science
Jickells T
(2013)
The cycling of organic nitrogen through the atmosphere
in Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society B: Biological Sciences
Jickells T
(2014)
Nutrient transport through estuaries: The importance of the estuarine geography
in Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science
| Description | atmospheric inputs significantly affect ocean productivity primarily via deposition of dust and associated iron and nitrogen |
| Exploitation Route | further research |
| Sectors | Energy,Environment |