Frontiers E-Book Release: Unraveling Mechanisms Underlying Annual Plankton Blooms in the North Atlantic and their Implications for Biogenic Aerosol Properties and Cloud Formation
Dec. 2, 2021, 2:54 p.m.
Project: NAAMES
Frontiers recently published Unraveling Mechanisms Underlying Annual Plankton Blooms in the North Atlantic and their Implications for Biogenic Aerosol Properties and Cloud Formation.
The NASA North Atlantic Aerosols and Marine Ecosystem Study (NAAMES) project was the first NASA Earth Venture – Suborbital mission focused on studying the coupled ocean ecosystem and atmosphere. NAAMES utilized a combination of ship-based, airborne, autonomous sensor, and remote sensing measurements to directly link ocean ecosystem processes, emissions of ocean-generated aerosols and precursor gases, and subsequent atmospheric evolution and processing. Four deployments coincided with the seasonal cycle of phytoplankton in the North Atlantic Ocean. Unraveling Mechanisms Underlying Annual Plankton Blooms in the North Atlantic and their Implications for Biogenic Aerosol Properties and Cloud Formation gives an editorial synopsis of several of the scientific findings from the NAAMES campaign. This e-book also contains 21 manuscripts that stemmed from the campaign.
The Topic Editors of this e-book are as follows:
Kristina Dee Anne Mojica, University of Southern Mississippi, United States
Sarah D. Brooks, Texas A&M University, United States
Michael Joseph Behrenfeld, Oregon State University, United States
E-book citation: Mojica, K. D. A., Brooks, S. D., Behrenfeld, M. J., eds. (2021). Unraveling Mechanisms Underlying Annual Plankton Blooms in the North Atlantic and Their Implications for Biogenic Aerosol Properties and Cloud Formation. Lausanne: Frontiers Media SA. doi: 10.3389/978-2-88971-652-4
Additional NAAMES Resources:
ASDC Landing Page for NAAMES
NAAMES StoryMap
NAAMES "Data in Action"
NAAMES Data Access:
Sub-Orbital Order Tool (SOOT)
Earthdata Search
Direct Data Download (DDD)