GEOTRACES ATLANTIC OCEAN PLANNING WORKSHOP Planned Activities 6: German SOLAS work with relevance to GEOTRACES

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GEOTRACES ATLANTIC OCEAN PLANNING
WORKSHOPPlanned Activities 6 German SOLAS work
with relevance to GEOTRACES
Dr Peter Croot IfM-Geomar FB2 Marine Biogeochemie
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SOPRAN
German contribution to the international project
SOLAS (Surface Ocean Lower Atmosphere
Studies) Funded 2007-2009 BMBF-Verbundprojekt
http//sopran.pangaea.de
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SOPRAN 4 Research Themes
Dust
High CO2
Gas Flux Parametrizations
Biogenic Gases
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SOPRAN Fe cycles and Saharan Dust
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SOPRAN projects with direct relevance to
GEOTRACES

• 1.1 Saharan dust input into the tropical Atlantic
  Ocean Quantification and chemical and physical
  characterization (IfT Herrmann Tegen)
• 1.2  Ecosystem effects of dust deposition (iron
  and nitrogen) on phytoplankton productivity and
  nitrogen fluxes (IfM-Geomar Croot LaRoche)
• 1.3 Aggregation and joint sedimentation of
  mineral dust and organic particles Modelling the
  enhanced removal of iron and organic carbon from
  the mixed layer of the tropical Atlantic Ocean (U
  Bremen Balzer MPI-Hamburg Meier-Reimer)
• 1.4 Modelling of iron speciation and kinetics in
  the tropical mixed layer of the ocean (AWI
  Volker Wolf-Gladrow)

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SOPRAN strongly linked to TENATSO
EU project
An oceanic time series station situated upwind of
Cape Verde running in parallel with an
atmospheric sampling program based nearby on land.
Potential Candidate for GEOTRACES Baseline
Station in the Eastern Tropical Atlantic
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TENATSO LAB INDP, Mindelo, Cape Verde
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See you in the waters off Cape Verde!