IIOE-2 Cruise No.EP12-1, 15 April, 2017 - 03 May, 2017 Kochi, India - Goa, India. Dust induced Primary Productivity and N2 fixation experiments in the Arabian Sea.

Oceans act as a major sink for anthropogenic CO2 through primary production. The Arabian Sea (area ~6.2 × 106 km2) covers only about 1% of the global ocean surface but contributes up to 5% of the global marine primary production, partly due to high influx of ‘new’ nitrogen via diazotrophic N2 fixation. Iron, whose main source in the ocean is atmospheric transport of dust, is an essential nutrient for sustaining N2 fixation. Despite being in the vicinity of the Thar desert on the east and the Arabia desert on the west, the Arabian Sea has been projected to be an HNLC (high nutrient low chlorophyll) region

Bibliographic Details

Main Authors:	Kumar, P. Kiran, Mukherjee, Rupa, Patel, Anil, Tirkey, Anima, Bhatti, Hiren, Thajudeen, Jabir, Karati, Kusum Komal, Sahay, Arvind, Raman, Mini, Rastogi, Neeraj, Kumar, Sanjeev, Singh, Arvind
Format:	Report biblioteca
Language:	English
Published:	Physical Research Laboratory 2017
Subjects:	IIOE-2, CO2, Primary production, Sagar Sampada/FORV, Nitrogen fixation,
Online Access:	http://hdl.handle.net/1834/9735
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