Wildfire aerosol deposition likely amplified a summertime Arctic phytoplankton bloom

Mathieu Ardyna; Douglas S. Hamilton; Tristan Harmel; Léo Lacour; Diana N. Bernstein; Julien Laliberté; Christopher Horvat; Rémi Laxenaire; Matthew M. Mills; Gert van Dijken; Igor Polyakov; Hervé Claustre; Natalie Mahowald; Kevin Robert Arrigo

doi:10.1038/s43247-022-00511-9

Communications Earth & Environment (Sep 2022)

Wildfire aerosol deposition likely amplified a summertime Arctic phytoplankton bloom

Mathieu Ardyna,
Douglas S. Hamilton,
Tristan Harmel,
Léo Lacour,
Diana N. Bernstein,
Julien Laliberté,
Christopher Horvat,
Rémi Laxenaire,
Matthew M. Mills,
Gert van Dijken,
Igor Polyakov,
Hervé Claustre,
Natalie Mahowald,
Kevin Robert Arrigo

Affiliations

Mathieu Ardyna: Takuvik Joint International Laboratory, Laval University (Canada) - CNRS (France), Département de biologie et Québec-Océan, Université Laval
Douglas S. Hamilton: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University
Tristan Harmel: GET (Université de Toulouse, CNRS, CNES, IRD, UPS)
Léo Lacour: Takuvik Joint International Laboratory, Laval University (Canada) - CNRS (France), Département de biologie et Québec-Océan, Université Laval
Diana N. Bernstein: Division of Marine Science, University of Southern Mississippi
Julien Laliberté: Takuvik Joint International Laboratory, Laval University (Canada) - CNRS (France), Département de biologie et Québec-Océan, Université Laval
Christopher Horvat: Institute at Brown for Environment and Society, Brown University
Rémi Laxenaire: Laboratoire de Météorologie Dynamique
Matthew M. Mills: Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University
Gert van Dijken: Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University
Igor Polyakov: International Arctic Research Center and College of Natural Science and Mathematics, University of Alaska Fairbanks
Hervé Claustre: Sorbonne Université & CNRS, Laboratoire d’Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV)
Natalie Mahowald: Department of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences, Cornell University
Kevin Robert Arrigo: Department of Earth System Science, Stanford University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00511-9
Journal volume & issue: Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Deposition of Siberian wildfire aerosols, which contained nitrogen, enhanced phytoplankton growth in the eastern Eurasian Basin of the Arctic Ocean in summer 2014, suggest satellite-based ocean color data and atmospheric transport modeling.

Published in Communications Earth & Environment

ISSN: 2662-4435 (Online)
Publisher: Nature Portfolio
Country of publisher: United Kingdom
LCC subjects: Science: Geology; Geography. Anthropology. Recreation: Environmental sciences
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