Residential burning is a potentially significant source of soluble iron to the ocean

Li, Rui; Plaas, Haley E.; Zhang, Yifan; Chen, Yizhu; Zhang, Tianyu; Yang, Yi; Rathod, Sagar; Zhang, Guohua; Wang, Xinming; Hamilton, Douglas S.; Tang, Mingjin

doi:10.5194/acp-26-9037-2026

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Residential burning is a potentially significant source of soluble iron to the ocean

Rui Li, Haley E. Plaas, Yifan Zhang, Yizhu Chen, Tianyu Zhang, Yi Yang, Sagar Rathod, Guohua Zhang, Xinming Wang, Douglas S. Hamilton, and Mingjin Tang

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Volume mean diameters of fly ash and bottom ash samples Rui Li https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17766592

Residential burning is a potentially significant source of soluble iron to the ocean Douglas S. Hamilton and Haley E. Plaas https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.17903186

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This work measured solubility of aerosol Fe from several distinct anthropogenic sources, updated aerosol Fe solubility parameterizations used in the Community Earth System model, and found that residential burning is a significant source of soluble aerosol Fe to the ocean.