Articles | Volume 15, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3169-2018
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3169-2018
Research article
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29 May 2018
Research article |  | 29 May 2018

Dimethyl sulfide dynamics in first-year sea ice melt ponds in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago

Margaux Gourdal, Martine Lizotte, Guillaume Massé, Michel Gosselin, Michel Poulin, Michael Scarratt, Joannie Charette, and Maurice Levasseur

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Melt ponds (MP) forming over first year ice (FYI) represent a potential source of the climate-relevant gas dimethylsulfide (DMS) to the atmosphere. Nine MP were sampled in the Canadian Arctic Archipelago. DMS concentrations reaching up to 6 nmol L−1, twice the world's surface oceanic mean, were measured. Seawater intrusion appeared to seed MP with DMS-producing communities. DMS flux from Arctic MP is expected to increase in response to the expanding areal and temporal trends of MP on FYI.
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