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JOURNAL OF GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH-ATMOSPHERES
卷 114, 期 -, 页码 -出版社
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1029/2008JD010417
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Atmospheric processing of mineral aerosol by anthropogenic pollutants may be an important process by which insoluble iron can be transformed into soluble forms and become available to oceanic biota. Observations of the soluble iron fraction in atmospheric aerosol exhibit large variability, which is poorly represented in models. In this study, we implemented a dust iron dissolution scheme in a global chemistry transport model (GEOS-Chem). The model is applied over the North Pacific Ocean during April 2001, a period when concentrations of dust and pollution within the east Asia outflow were high. Simulated fields of many key chemical constituents compare reasonably well with available observations, although some discrepancies are identified and discussed. In our simulations, the production of soluble iron varies temporally and regionally depending on pollution-to-dust ratio, primarily due to strong buffering by calcite. Overall, we show that the chemical processing mechanism produces significant amounts of dissolved iron reaching and being deposited in remote regions of the Pacific basin, with some seasonal variability. Simulated enhancements in particulate soluble iron fraction range from 0.5% to 6%, which is consistent with the observations. According to our simulations, similar to 30% to 70% of particulate soluble iron over the North Pacific Ocean basin can be attributed to atmospheric processing. On the basis of April 2001 monthly simulations, sensitivity tests suggest that doubling SO2 emissions can induce a significant increase (13% on average, up to 40% during specific events) in dissolved iron production and deposition to the remote Pacific. We roughly estimate that half of the primary productivity induced by iron deposition in a north Pacific high-nutrient low-chlorophyll region is due to soluble iron derived from anthropogenic chemical processing of Asian aerosol.
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