The Tonga arc, an iron boundary in the South West Pacific Ocean
As part of the TONGA GEOTRACES process study, Tilliette and colleagues identified high dissolved iron concentrations in the west of the Tonga arc.
Science Highlights
Some recent GEOTRACES science findings are reported below.
Dominance of the benthic flux of rare earth elements on continental shelves
Deng and his colleagues focus on one of the largest land–ocean interfaces in Asia, the Changjiang River–East China Sea system.
Linear correlation between Dissolved Gaseous Mercury and Dissolved Inorganic Carbon opens new modelling perspectives
Živković and his colleagues led a close study of the mercury speciation along the 40°S GEOTRACES section.
High resolution of dissolved and particulate barium distributions in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean reveal the importance of the margin sources on the oceanic barium budget
Rahman and co-workers performed intensive samplings and analyses of barium along the GEOTRACES GA03 and GP16 transects.
High resolution of dissolved and particulate barium distributions in the Atlantic and Pacific Ocean reveal the importance of the margin sources on the oceanic Ba budget
Rahman and co-workers performed intensive samplings and analyses of barium along the GEOTRACES GA03 and GP16 transects.
Insight on the aluminium cycling during the inter-monsoon period in the Arabian Sea and Equatorial Indian Ocean
Full vertical water column profiles were established by Singh and Singh along the GI05 transect in the Indian Ocean during the fall inter-monsoon period in 2015.
Machine learning approach led to the first iron climatology
Huang and co-workers propose the first data-driven surface-to-seafloor dissolved iron climatology.
Distributions, boundary inputs, and scavenging processes of trace metals in the East Sea (Japan Sea)
Seo and his colleagues show pronounced atmospheric and shelf inputs of trace elements in the Japan Sea.
New trace metal data in the Seas of Japan and Okhotsk
Nakaguchi and colleagues realized full-depth and section distributions of traces metals collected from the Seas of Japan and Okhotsk.