Asian Dust and Ocean EcoSystem (ADOES)
Task Team

The goal of ADOES is: To quantitatively understand the deposition flux and bioavailability of Asian dust, and its impact on biogeochemical processes and ocean ecosystem in order to provide scientific bases for the mechanism of eolian dust-ocean ecosystem-radiative gases-climate change.

ADOES is coordinated by Huiwang Gao (P.R. of China) and Mitsuo Uematsu (Japan).

The main activities of the task team fall under the following categories:

  • Physical and chemical variations of dust aerosol during its downwind transportation
  • Transport path and layer of dust and its deposition flux to northern Pacific Oceans
  • Impacts of dust on biogeochemistry and ocean ecosystem

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