Communications Earth & Environment (Dec 2022)

Increased oceanic dimethyl sulfide emissions in areas of sea ice retreat inferred from a Greenland ice core

  • Yutaka Kurosaki,
  • Sumito Matoba,
  • Yoshinori Iizuka,
  • Koji Fujita,
  • Rigen Shimada

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s43247-022-00661-w
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1
pp. 1 – 8

Abstract

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Summer sea ice retreat in the high latitude North Atlantic since 2000 is associated with increases in oceanic emissions of dimethyl sulfide, according to a record of methane sulfonic acid fluxes from an ice core in southeast Greenland.