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Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1869-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/gmd-12-1869-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 12, issue 5
Development and technical paper
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10 May 2019
Development and technical paper |  | 10 May 2019

CO2 drawdown due to particle ballasting by glacial aeolian dust: an estimate based on the ocean carbon cycle model MPIOM/HAMOCC version 1.6.2p3

Malte Heinemann, Joachim Segschneider, and Birgit Schneider

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Ocean CO2 uptake played a crucial role for the global cooling during ice ages. Dust formation, e.g. by ice scraping over bedrock, potentially contributed to this CO2 uptake because (1) the iron in the dust is a fertilizer and (2) the heavy dust particles can accelerate sinking organic matter (ballasting hypothesis). This study tests the glacial dust ballasting hypothesis for the first time, using an ocean model. It turns out, however, that the ballasting effect probably played a minor role.
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