Effects of an Asian Dust Storm on the Gulf of Alaska: Trace Metal Evidence and Biological Consequences (original) (raw)

2004

Abstract

In April 2001, a large dust storm originating in the Gobi and Takla Makan deserts resulted in large quantities of dust to be transported to the northeastern Pacific Ocean. Off the California coast, dissolved iron and aluminum concentrations determined before and after the dust traversed the North Pacific show increases of 0.5nM and 2nM respectively (Johnson, 2003). The most concentrated

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