Temporal Variation in Iron Flux Deposition onto the Northern North Pacific Reconstructed from an Ice Core Drilled at Mount Wrangell, Alaska
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- Sasaki Hirotaka
- Graduate School of Environmental Science, Hokkaido University Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
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- Matoba Sumito
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
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- Shiraiwa Takayuki
- Institute of Low Temperature Science, Hokkaido University
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- Benson Carl S.
- Geophysical Institute, University of Alaska Fairbanks
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<p>To quantify the atmospheric iron deposition on the northern North Pacific region, we measured concentrations of iron in ice cores drilled at Mount Wrangell, Alaska, in 2003 and 2004. The iron concentration profile from 1981 to 2003 showed seasonal peaks each spring. This variation was similar to the seasonal variation in the concentration of mineral dust in the atmosphere in the North Pacific region. The annual iron fluxes calculated from the ice core records ranged from 3.2 to 27.0 mg m−2 yr−1, and the temporal variation in the iron flux was significantly correlated with the frequency of severe dust storms occurrence on the East Asian continent (r = 0.65, p < 0.05) and the total number of Kosa days observed in Japan (r = 0.64-0.66, p < 0.05), but not with the precipitation amount in Alaska. We concluded that the amount of iron deposition onto the northern North Pacific is controlled mainly by the emission of dust from the east Asian continent and not by scavenging processes in Alaska.</p>
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- SOLA
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SOLA 12 (0), 287-290, 2016
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- 130005282085
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- 2115/65225
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