Nilgun Kubilay

TL;DR: The iron cycle, in which iron-containing soil dust is transported from land through the atmosphere to the oceans, affecting ocean biogeochemistry and hence having feedback effects on climate and dust production, is reviewed.

TL;DR: A review of the current understanding of the global dust cycle and identifies future research needs can be found in this paper, where the global distribution of desert dust is estimated from a combination of observations of dust from in situ concentration, optical depth, and deposition data; observations from satellite; and global atmospheric models.

TL;DR: A worldwide compilation of atmospheric total phosphorus (TP) and phosphate (PO4) concentration and deposition flux observations are combined with transport model simulations to derive the global distribution of concentrations and fluxes of TP and PO4.

TL;DR: The results imply that humans could be substantially impacting iron and bioavailable iron deposition to ocean regions, but there are large uncertainties in the authors' understanding.

TL;DR: In this article, it was shown that dust transport constitutes a large fraction of the annual atmospheric deposition in the eastern Mediterranean, with two deposition events of short duration accounting up to 30% of the total annual flux.