Coral reef origins of atmospheric dimethylsulfide at Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Swan, Hilton B.; Jones, Graham B.; Deschaseaux, Elisabeth S. M.; Eyre, Bradley D.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-229-2017

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-229-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-229-2017

© Author(s) 2017. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 14, issue 1

Research article

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17 Jan 2017

Research article |

| 17 Jan 2017

Coral reef origins of atmospheric dimethylsulfide at Heron Island, southern Great Barrier Reef, Australia

Hilton B. Swan, Graham B. Jones, Elisabeth S. M. Deschaseaux, and Bradley D. Eyre

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Final revised paper (published on 17 Jan 2017)
Preprint (discussion started on 19 Sep 2016)

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Status: closed

AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC1: 'Referee comment', Anonymous Referee #1, 31 Oct 2016
RC2: 'Review of the ms by Swan et al. 2016', Anonymous Referee #2, 01 Nov 2016
AC1: 'Replies to Referee #1', Hilton Swan, 09 Dec 2016
AC2: 'Replies to Referee #2', Hilton Swan, 09 Dec 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (11 Dec 2016) by Gerhard Herndl

AR by Hilton Swan on behalf of the Authors (19 Dec 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (21 Dec 2016) by Gerhard Herndl

AR by Hilton Swan on behalf of the Authors (23 Dec 2016)

Short summary

We measured the sulfur gas dimethylsulfide (DMS) in marine air at a coral cay on the Great Barrier Reef. DMS is well known to be released from the world's oceans, but environmental evidence of coral reefs releasing DMS has not been clearly demonstrated. We showed the coral reef can sometimes release DMS to the air, which was seen as spikes above the DMS released from the ocean. The DMS from the reef supplements the DMS from the ocean to assist formation of clouds that influence local climate.