Arctic Ocean sediments as important current and future sinks for marine microplastics missing in the global microplastic budget

SK Kim, JS Kim, SY Kim, NS Song, HS La… - Science Advances, 2023 - science.org
To better understand unexpectedly low plastic loads at the ocean's surface compared with
inputs, unidentified sinks must be located. Here, we present the microplastic (MP) budget for …

Coastal ocean and shelf-sea biogeochemical cycling of trace elements and isotopes: lessons learned from GEOTRACES

MA Charette, PJ Lam, MC Lohan… - … of the Royal …, 2016 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Continental shelves and shelf seas play a central role in the global carbon cycle. However,
their importance with respect to trace element and isotope (TEI) inputs to ocean basins is …

Importance of seasonal sea ice in the western Arctic ocean to the Arctic and global microplastic budgets

SK Kim, HJ Lee, JS Kim, SH Kang, EJ Yang… - Journal of Hazardous …, 2021 - Elsevier
Arctic sea ice entraps microplastics (MP) from seawater and atmosphere and is recognized
as sink and transport vector of MPs. However, ice-trapped fraction in the global MP budget …

Degradation of terrigenous dissolved organic carbon in the western Arctic Ocean

DA Hansell, D Kadko, NR Bates - Science, 2004 - science.org
The largest flux of terrigenous organic carbon into the ocean occurs in dissolved form by
way of rivers. The fate of this material is enigmatic; there are numerous reports of …

Increased fluxes of shelf-derived materials to the central Arctic Ocean

LE Kipp, MA Charette, WS Moore, PB Henderson… - Science …, 2018 - science.org
Rising temperatures in the Arctic Ocean region are responsible for changes such as
reduced ice cover, permafrost thawing, and increased river discharge, which, together, alter …

Estimates of tidal mixing in the Indonesian archipelago from multidisciplinary INDOMIX in-situ data

A Koch-Larrouy, A Atmadipoera, P Van Beek… - Deep Sea Research …, 2015 - Elsevier
Abstract The Indonesian Mixing program (INDOMIX) was designed to quantify the very
strong mixing that transforms Pacific waters into isohaline Indonesian Waters in the …

Arctic–Atlantic exchange of the dissolved micronutrients iron, manganese, cobalt, nickel, copper and zinc with a focus on Fram Strait

S Krisch, MJ Hopwood, S Roig… - Global …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Arctic Ocean is considered a source of micronutrients to the Nordic Seas and
the North Atlantic Ocean through the gateway of Fram Strait (FS). However, there is a paucity …

Benthic fluxes of trace metals in the Chukchi Sea and their transport into the Arctic Ocean

LH Vieira, EP Achterberg, J Scholten, AJ Beck… - Marine Chemistry, 2019 - Elsevier
Abstract The Chukchi Sea is a primary site for shelf-ocean exchange in the Arctic region and
modifies Pacific-sourced water masses as they transit via the Bering Strait into the Arctic …

Organic Fe speciation in the Eurasian Basins of the Arctic Ocean and its relation to terrestrial DOM

HA Slagter, HE Reader, MJA Rijkenberg… - Marine Chemistry, 2017 - Elsevier
The bio-essential trace metal iron (Fe) has poor inorganic solubility in seawater, and
therefore dissolution is dependent on organic complexation. The Arctic Ocean is subject to …

Enriched Regions of 228Ra Along the US GEOTRACES Pacific Meridional Transect (GP15)

WS Moore, MA Charette, PB Henderson… - Journal of …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
The half‐life of 228Ra (5.7 years) aligns well with near‐surface and near‐bottom ocean
mixing timescales. Because 228Ra is sourced from sediments, regions of enhanced activity …