Cuantificación de las fuentes de hierro disuelto en el Océano Atlántico Norte

Tim M Conway1, Seth G John2

  • 11] Department of Earth and Ocean Sciences, University of South Carolina, Columbia, South Carolina 29208, USA [2] Institute of Geochemistry and Petrology, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich, NW D81.4, Clausiusstrasse 25, 8092 Zürich, Switzerland.

Nature
|July 11, 2014
PubMed
Resumen

El polvo sahariano es la principal fuente de hierro disuelto en el Atlántico Norte, crucial para el fitoplancton marino y el ciclo del carbono oceánico. Comprender estas fuentes de hierro es clave para predecir las interacciones climáticas.

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