Sea-surface dimethylsulfide (DMS) concentration from satellite data at global and regional scales

Galí, Martí; Levasseur, Maurice; Devred, Emmanuel; Simó, Rafel; Babin, Marcel

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3497-2018

Articles | Volume 15, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3497-2018

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-15-3497-2018

© Author(s) 2018. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.

Articles | Volume 15, issue 11

Research article

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14 Jun 2018

Research article |

| 14 Jun 2018

Sea-surface dimethylsulfide (DMS) concentration from satellite data at global and regional scales

Martí Galí, Maurice Levasseur, Emmanuel Devred, Rafel Simó, and Marcel Babin

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RC1: 'comments', Anonymous Referee #1, 13 Mar 2018
- SC1: 'Response to R#1's first comment', Martí Galí, 15 Mar 2018
- AC1: 'Author response to R1 and R2', Martí Galí, 13 Apr 2018
RC2: 'Reviewer Comments', Anonymous Referee #2, 19 Mar 2018
- AC1: 'Author response to R1 and R2', Martí Galí, 13 Apr 2018

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (review by editor) (17 Apr 2018) by S. Wajih A. Naqvi

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We developed a new algorithm to estimate the sea-surface concentration of dimethylsulfide (DMS) using satellite data. DMS is a gas produced by marine plankton that, once emitted to the atmosphere, plays a key climatic role by seeding cloud formation. We used the algorithm to produce global DMS maps and also regional DMS time series. The latter suggest that DMS can vary largely from one year to another, which should be taken into account in atmospheric studies.