Delivery of anthropogenic bioavailable iron from mineral dust and combustion  aerosols to the ocean

Ito, A.; Shi, Z.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-85-2016

Articles | Volume 16, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-85-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/acp-16-85-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 16, issue 1

Research article

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15 Jan 2016

Research article |

| 15 Jan 2016

Delivery of anthropogenic bioavailable iron from mineral dust and combustion aerosols to the ocean

A. Ito and Z. Shi

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RC C6895: 'acp-2015-487', Anonymous Referee #1, 16 Sep 2015
- AC C9486: 'Response to reviewer 1', Akinori Ito, 19 Nov 2015
RC C7148: 'Comments on acp-2015-487', Anonymous Referee #2, 24 Sep 2015
- AC C9490: 'Response to reviewer 2', Akinori Ito, 19 Nov 2015

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ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (10 Dec 2015) by Maria Kanakidou

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A new Fe dissolution scheme is developed and is applied to an atmospheric chemistry transport model to estimate anthropogenic soluble Fe deposition. Our improved model successfully captured an inverse relationship of Fe solubility and total Fe loading. Our model estimated the low end of Fe solubility compared to the previous studies. Our model results suggest that human activities contribute to about half of bioavailable Fe supply to significant portions of the oceans in the Northern Hemisphere.