Find below a summary of main GEOTRACES findings and products on zinc research:
Atlas
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Atlantic Ocean:
Indian Ocean:
Pacific Ocean:
Arctic Ocean:
3D scenes showing the distribution of dissolved zinc in the Atlantic and the Pacific. In warm colours (red, orange, etc.) you can view high concentrations of dissolved zinc.
Data
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Discoveries include:
Below you can find a list of science highlights of main GEOTRACES discoveries on zinc research:
Science Highlights
East-West contrasting fate and anthropogenic inputs for dissolved trace metals in the Subarctic Pacific Ocean
Chan and co-authors report the full-depth distribution of dissolved nickel, copper, zinc, and cadmium in the North Pacific Ocean.
Science Highlights
Iron and zinc isotopes disentangle the anthropogenic, natural and wildfire sources of aerosols over the North and Equatorial Pacific Ocean
Bunnell and co-authors analysed aerosol iron and zinc isotopic compositions along the North Pacific GEOTRACES GP15 section (Alaska-Tahiti).
Science Highlights
North-South section of bioactive cadmium, nickel, zinc, copper and iron along GEOTRACES transect GP19 in the Pacific Ocean
Zheng and his colleagues propose the first full sections of the simultaneous dissolved distributions of five nutrient-type trace metals in the western South Pacific Ocean.
Science Highlights
What are the drivers of the distributions of cadmium, nickel, zinc, copper and cobalt, manganese and aluminium in the Atlantic Ocean? Two papers are tackling this issue
Chen and co-authors reveal that the distributions of dissolved tracers at depth in the South Atlantic are predominantly controlled by the mixing of North Atlantic Deep Water and waters of Antarctic origin…
Science Highlights
Trace metal fluxes of cadmium, copper, lead and zinc from the Congo River into the South Atlantic Ocean are supplemented by atmospheric inputs
Liu and colleagues show that rainfall augments some fluxes of trace metals from the Congo River.
Science Highlights
The North Pacific Ocean, a key actor for the zinc oceanic cycle
Sieber and his colleagues lift the veil on some of the mechanisms that control the behavior of zinc in the Pacific Ocean, and more globally.
List of publications
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