| Literature DB >> 33431943 |
Karine Sellegri1, Alessia Nicosia2, Evelyn Freney2, Julia Uitz3, Melilotus Thyssen4, Gérald Grégori4, Anja Engel5, Birthe Zäncker5, Nils Haëntjens6, Sébastien Mas7, David Picard2, Alexia Saint-Macary8,9, Maija Peltola2, Clémence Rose2, Jonathan Trueblood2, Dominique Lefevre4, Barbara D'Anna10, Karine Desboeufs11, Nicholas Meskhidze12, Cécile Guieu3, Cliff S Law8,9.
Abstract
One pathway by which the oceans influence climate is via the emission of sea spray that may subsequently influence cloud properties. Sea spray emissions are known to be dependent on atmospheric and oceanic physicochemical parameters, but the potential role of ocean biology on sea spray fluxes remains poorly characterized. Here we show a consistent significant relationship between seawater nanophytoplankton cell abundances and sea-spray derived Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) number fluxes, generated using water from three different oceanic regions. This sensitivity of CCN number fluxes to ocean biology is currently unaccounted for in climate models yet our measurements indicate that it influences fluxes by more than one order of magnitude over the range of phytoplankton investigated.Entities:
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Year: 2021 PMID： 33431943 PMCID： PMC7801489 DOI： 10.1038/s41598-020-78097-5
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Sci Rep ISSN： 2045-2322 Impact factor: 4.379