Position of Aleutian Low Drives Dramatic Inter-Annual Variability in Atmospheric Transport of Glacial Iron to the Gulf of Alaska

Abstract: Our understanding of glacial flour dust storm delivery of iron to the Gulf of Alaska (GoA) is limited. We interpret concurrent time-series satellite, meteorological, and aerosol geochemical data from the GoA to examine how inter-annual variability in regional weather patterns impacts offshore aerosol glacial iron transport. In 2011, when a northerly Aleutian Low (AL) was persistent during fall, dust emission was suppressed and highly intermittent due to prevalent wet conditions, low winds and…