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PT J
TI Dissolution of atmospheric cobalt and zinc in seawater
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AF Thuróczy, C.-E.
   Boye, M.
   Losno, R.
AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;
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C1 Laboratoire des sciences de l'Environnement MARin CNRS UMR6539, Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer, Place Nicolas Copernic, Technopôle Brest-Iroise 29280 Plouzané, France
   LISA Université Paris-Diderot et Paris Est Créteil, UMR CNRS 7583, 61 avenue du Général de Gaulle, 94010 Créteil Cedex, France
C2 IUEM, FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS 07, FRANCE
IN DOAJ
TC 0
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00296/40718/39718.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR MD 145 / KEOPS
BO Marion Dufresne
AB Atmospheric dust inputs to the surface ocean are a major source of trace metals likely to be bio-available for phytoplankton after their dissolution in seawater. Among them, cobalt (Co) and zinc (Zn) are essential for phytoplankton growth and for the distribution of the major groups such as coccolithophorids, cyanobacteria and diatoms. The solubility in seawater of Co and Zn present in natural and anthropogenic dusts was studied using an open-flow reactor with and without light irradiation. Those dusts can be transported in the atmosphere by the wind before being deposited to the surface ocean. The analyses of cobalt and zinc were conducted using voltammetric methods and the global elemental composition of dust was determined by ICP-AES. This study highlighted the role of the dust origin in revealing the solubility characteristics. Much higher dust solubility was found for zinc as compared to cobalt; cobalt in anthropogenic particles was much more soluble (0.78%) in seawater after 2 h of dissolution than Co in natural particles (0.14%). Zinc showed opposite solubility, higher in natural particles (16%) than in anthropogenic particles (5.2%). A natural dust event to the surface ocean could account for up to 5% of the cobalt inventory and up to 50% of the Zn inventory in the mixed layer in the Pacific Ocean whereas the cobalt and zinc inventories in the mixed layer of the Atlantic Ocean might already include the effects of natural dust inputs and the subsequent metal dissolution. Anthropogenic sources to the surface ocean could be as important as the natural sources, but a better estimate of the flux of anthropogenic aerosol to the surface ocean is needed to further estimate the anthropogenic inputs. Variations in natural and anthropogenic inputs may induce large shifts in the Co/Zn ratio in the surface ocean; hence it could impact the phytoplankton community structure.
PY 2009
SO Biogeosciences Discussios
SN 1810-6277
PU Copernicus GmbH
VL 6
BP 10883
EP 10910
DI 10.5194/bgd-6-10883-2009
ID 40718
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