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
Baker A
(2017)
Atmospheric deposition of soluble trace elements along the Atlantic Meridional Transect (AMT)
in Progress in Oceanography
Baker A
(2010)
Estimation of atmospheric nutrient inputs to the Atlantic Ocean from 50°N to 50°S based on large-scale field sampling: Fixed nitrogen and dry deposition of phosphorus
in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Cape J
(2011)
Organic nitrogen in the atmosphere - Where does it come from? A review of sources and methods
in Atmospheric Research
Duce RA
(2008)
Impacts of atmospheric anthropogenic nitrogen on the open ocean.
in Science (New York, N.Y.)
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
Johnson M
(2010)
A numerical scheme to calculate temperature and salinity dependent air-water transfer velocities for any gas
in Ocean Science
Lesworth T
(2010)
Aerosol organic nitrogen over the remote Atlantic Ocean
in Atmospheric Environment
Lin C
(2012)
An assessment of the significance of sulphate sources over the Atlantic Ocean based on sulphur isotope data
in Atmospheric Environment
Martino M
(2014)
Western Pacific atmospheric nutrient deposition fluxes, their impact on surface ocean productivity
in Global Biogeochemical Cycles
Pollard RT
(2009)
Southern Ocean deep-water carbon export enhanced by natural iron fertilization.
in Nature
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
Shi Z
(2011)
Minor effect of physical size sorting on iron solubility of transported mineral dust
in Atmospheric Chemistry and Physics
| Description | atmospheric inputs significantly affect ocean productivity primarily via deposition of dust and associated iron and nitrogen |
| Exploitation Route | further research |
| Sectors | Energy,Environment |