Changing atmospheric acidity as a modulator of nutrient deposition and ocean biogeochemistry

A contribution from the SOLAS project and GESAMP Working Group 38, this paper by Alex Baker et al. in Science Advances, shows how anthropogenic emissions to the atmosphere have caused changes affecting the magnitude, distribution and deposition of nutrients supplied to the ocean, as well as the extent to which nutrient deposition interacts with the sea surface microlayer during its passage into bulk seawater, and the relative abundances of soluble nutrients in atmospheric deposition.

Baker, A. R., Kanakidou, M., Nenes, A., Myriokefalitakis, S., Croot, P. L., Duce, R. A., et al. (2021). Changing atmospheric acidity as a modulator of nutrient deposition and ocean biogeochemistry. Sci. Adv. 7, eabd8800. doi:10.1126/sciadv.abd8800.