The fertilizing role of African dust in the Amazon rainforest: A first multiyear assessment based on data from Cloud‐Aerosol Lidar and Infrared Pathfinder Satellite Observations

The productivity of the Amazon rainforest is constrained by the availability of nutrients, in particular phosphorus (P). Deposition of long‐range transported African dust is recognized as a potentially important but poorly quantified source of phosphorus. This study provides a first multiyear satell...

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Published in:Geophysical research letters 2015-03, Vol.42 (6), p.1984-1991
Main Authors: Yu, Hongbin, Chin, Mian, Yuan, Tianle, Bian, Huisheng, Remer, Lorraine A., Prospero, Joseph M., Omar, Ali, Winker, David, Yang, Yuekui, Zhang, Yan, Zhang, Zhibo, Zhao, Chun
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Language:English
Subjects:
Aerosol measurements
Aerosols
Amazon Basin
Amazon rainforest
Annual variations
Atmospheric particulates
Availability
biogeochemical cycle
Biogeochemistry
CALIPSO
CALIPSO (Pathfinder satellite)
Data
Depletion
Deposition
Dust
Dust deposition
Dust storms
Dust transport
ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCES
Estimates
In situ measurement
Lidar
Mineral nutrients
Nutrient availability
Nutrients
Phosphorus
Polarization
Rain
Rain forests
Rainfall
Rainforests
River basins
Satellite observation
satellite remote sensing
Satellites
Three dimensional
Transport
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