GWS Barcelona Demo Wiki Workspace

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GWS Barcelona Demo Wiki Workspace
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Demo Datasets See Wiki
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Demo Participants
Coordination
George Percivall
Coordination
Rudolf Husar, Erin Robinson
Coordination
Siri Jodha Singh Khalsa
Dust Model
Carlos Perez,
Dust Model
Doug Westphal
Dust Model?
George Kallos
Dust Data
Xavier Querol, Jorge Pey
Satellite Data
Gregory Peptoukh, Nadime Alameh
Visibility Data
Visibility Data
Wind Forecast
Ben Domenico
Human Population
Greg Yetman
Proc. Services
Stefan Falke
Delivery Services?
Lorenzo Bigagli
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Dust Fertilization Promotes Biomass

• Through photosynthesis, phytoplankton produce
  most of the oceanic biomass
• Iron from atmospheric dust is a key nutrient for
  phytoplankton
• However, many other factors influence the
  generation of phytoplankton chlorophyll
• A scientific challenge is to quantify the role of
  various factors that influence chlorophyll

Dust
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Is Dust Enhancing Chlorophyll over the Western
Med?
Chlorophyll NASA SeaWiFS - Givanni
NASA SeaWiFS
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Dust Monitoring Data on Google Earth