@Article{AAMM-3-52, author = {Pan , AdamPourziaei , Babak and Huang , Huaxiong}, title = {Effect of Ocean Iron Fertilization on the Phytoplankton Biological Carbon Pump}, journal = {Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics}, year = {2011}, volume = {3}, number = {1}, pages = {52--64}, abstract = {

It has been proposed that photosynthetic plankton can be used as a biological carbon pump to absorb and sequester carbon dioxide in the ocean. In this paper, plankton population dynamics are simulated in a single stratified water column to predict carbon dioxide sequestering due to surface iron fertilization in deep ocean. Using a predator-prey model and realistic parameter values, iron fertilization was found to only cause temporary blooms up to 5 months in duration, and relatively small increases in adsorption of atmospheric $\mathrm{CO_{2}}$.

}, issn = {2075-1354}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.4208/aamm.10-m1023}, url = {http://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/aamm/156.html} }