Organic Contribution on Particles Formed on Pacific Ocean: From Phytoplankton Blooms to Climate
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These SOAP project Pacific Ocean measurements reveal that phytoplankton blooms with sunny conditions make possible secondary organic contribution to ultrafine particles size and composition, and thus on cloud formation ability, and finally on climate. This is in agreement with other biologically active region observations about the presence of secondary organics even the exact fraction is also depending on the local marine life (e.g. plankton blooms, seaweeds, corals). An organic contribution is clearly needed to add to CLAW hypothesis. Keywords—Climate, marine aerosols, phytoplankton, secondary organics, CLAW hypothesis.
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