TY - JOUR
T1 - Effect of Ocean Iron Fertilization on the Phytoplankton Biological Carbon Pump
AU - Pan , Adam
AU - Pourziaei , Babak
AU - Huang , Huaxiong
JO - Advances in Applied Mathematics and Mechanics
VL - 1
SP - 52
EP - 64
PY - 2011
DA - 2011/03
SN - 3
DO - http://doi.org/10.4208/aamm.10-m1023
UR - https://global-sci.org/intro/article_detail/aamm/156.html
KW - Phytoplankton, carbon dioxide, iron fertilization, carbon pump.
AB - <p style="text-align: justify;">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 $\mathrm{CO_{2}}$.</p>