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Baker, A. R. 
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8365-8953, Weston, K., Kelly, S. D., Voss, M., Streu, P. and Cape, J. N.
(2007)
Dry and wet deposition of nutrients from the tropical Atlantic atmosphere: Links to primary productivity and nitrogen fixation.
Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers, 54 (10).
pp. 1704-1720.
ISSN 1879-0119
Abstract
Atmospheric deposition fluxes of soluble nutrients (N, P, Si, Fe, Co, Zn) to the tropical North Atlantic were determined during cruise M55 of the German SOLAS programme. Nutrient fluxes were highest in the east of the section along 10°N, owing to the proximity of source regions in West Africa and Europe, and lowest in the west, for both dry and wet deposition modes. In common with other recent studies, atmospheric P and Si inputs during M55 were strongly depleted relative to the stoichiometry of phytoplankton Fe, N, P and Si requirements. Atmospheric N inputs were equivalent to 0.1–4.7% of observed primary productivity during the cruise. Atmospheric nutrient supply was also compared to observed nitrogen fixation rates during M55. While atmospheric Fe supply may have been sufficient to support N fixation (depending on the relationship between our simple Fe leaching experiment and aerosol Fe dissolution in seawater), atmospheric P supply was well below the required rate. The stable nitrogen isotope composition of nitrate–N in aerosol and rain was also determined. Results of a simple model indicate that atmospheric deposition and nitrogen fixation introduce similar amounts of isotopically light nitrogen into surface waters of the study region. This implies that nitrogen isotope-based methods would overestimate nitrogen fixation here by a factor of 2, if atmospheric inputs were not taken into account.
| Item Type: | Article |
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| Uncontrolled Keywords: | solas,north atlantic,nutrients,atmospheric deposition,productivity,nitrogen fixation,m55 |
| Faculty \ School: | Faculty of Science > School of Environmental Sciences |
| UEA Research Groups: | Faculty of Science > Research Groups > Centre for Ocean and Atmospheric Sciences |
| Depositing User: | Rosie Cullington |
| Date Deposited: | 26 Feb 2011 18:19 |
| Last Modified: | 19 Mar 2024 17:30 |
| URI: | https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/25033 |
| DOI: | 10.1016/j.dsr.2007.07.001 |
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