Variability in the correlation between Asian dust storms and chlorophyll a concentration from the North to Equatorial Pacific.

ABSTRACT: A long-term record of Asian dust storms showed seven high-occurrence-frequency centers in China. The intrusion of Asian dust into the downwind seas, including the China seas, the Sea of Japan, the subarctic North Pacific, the North Pacific subtropical gyre, and the western and eastern Equatorial Pacific, has been shown to add nutrients to ocean ecosystems and enhance their biological activities. To explore the relationship between the transported dust from various sources to the six seas and oceanic biological activities with different nutrient conditions, the correlation between monthly chlorophyll a concentration in each sea and monthly dust storm occurrence frequencies reaching the sea during 1997-2007 was examined in this study. No correlations were observed between dust and chlorophyl

SUBMITTER: Tan SC 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC3584023 | biostudies-literature | 2013

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature