Nature Communications (Aug 2022)
Mercury isotope evidence for Arctic summertime re-emission of mercury from the cryosphere
- Beatriz Ferreira Araujo,
- Stefan Osterwalder,
- Natalie Szponar,
- Domenica Lee,
- Mariia V. Petrova,
- Jakob Boyd Pernov,
- Shaddy Ahmed,
- Lars-Eric Heimbürger-Boavida,
- Laure Laffont,
- Roman Teisserenc,
- Nikita Tananaev,
- Claus Nordstrom,
- Olivier Magand,
- Geoff Stupple,
- Henrik Skov,
- Alexandra Steffen,
- Bridget Bergquist,
- Katrine Aspmo Pfaffhuber,
- Jennie L. Thomas,
- Simon Scheper,
- Tuukka Petäjä,
- Aurélien Dommergue,
- Jeroen E. Sonke
Affiliations
- Beatriz Ferreira Araujo
- Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Université de Toulouse
- Stefan Osterwalder
- Institute of Agricultural Sciences, ETH Zurich
- Natalie Szponar
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto
- Domenica Lee
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto
- Mariia V. Petrova
- CNRS/INSU, Aix Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, IRD, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography
- Jakob Boyd Pernov
- Department of Environmental Science, iClimate, Aarhus University
- Shaddy Ahmed
- University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE
- Lars-Eric Heimbürger-Boavida
- CNRS/INSU, Aix Marseille Université, Université de Toulon, IRD, Mediterranean Institute of Oceanography
- Laure Laffont
- Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Université de Toulouse
- Roman Teisserenc
- UMR5245 CNRS/UPS/INPT, Laboratoire Écologie Fonctionnelle et Environnement
- Nikita Tananaev
- Melnikov Permafrost Institute, Siberian Branch, Russian Academy of Sciences
- Claus Nordstrom
- Department of Environmental Science, iClimate, Aarhus University
- Olivier Magand
- University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE
- Geoff Stupple
- Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Henrik Skov
- Department of Environmental Science, iClimate, Aarhus University
- Alexandra Steffen
- Air Quality Research Division, Environment and Climate Change Canada
- Bridget Bergquist
- Department of Earth Sciences, University of Toronto
- Katrine Aspmo Pfaffhuber
- Norwegian Institute for Air Research
- Jennie L. Thomas
- University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE
- Simon Scheper
- Dr. Simon Scheper—Research | Consulting | Teaching
- Tuukka Petäjä
- Institute for Atmospheric and Earth System Research, University of Helsinki
- Aurélien Dommergue
- University Grenoble Alpes, CNRS, IRD, Grenoble INP, IGE
- Jeroen E. Sonke
- Géosciences Environnement Toulouse, CNRS, IRD, Université de Toulouse
- DOI
- https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-022-32440-8
- Journal volume & issue
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Vol. 13,
no. 1
pp. 1 – 12
Abstract
Arctic warming thaws permafrost, leading to enhanced soil mercury transport to the Arctic Ocean. Mercury isotope signatures in arctic rivers, ocean and atmosphere suggest that permafrost mercury is buried in marine sediment and not emitted to the global atmosphere
