Using Satellite Data to Calculate DimethylSulfide in Greenland Sea

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10.2991/ammsa-17.2017.31How to use a DOI?

Keywords

dimethyl sulfide(DMS); satellite data; chlorophyll a(CHL); mixed layer depth(MLD)

Abstract

We use satellite data to calculate Dimethylsulfur (DMS) in Greenland Sea (20øW~10øE, 70øN~80øN) in year 2003~2006. At the same time, explore the correlations between DMS and sea-ice concentration (ICE). Among the huge global satellite data, the chlorophyll a (CHL) and sea-ice concentration data were retrieved in the study region. MATLAB software is used to convert the regional data to grid data. The temperature difference method is used to calculate the mixed layer depth (MLD). DMS is calculated according to the Sim¢'s formula. Furthermore, we divided the study region into three sub-regions 70øN ~75øN and 75øN~80øN and 70øN~80øN). Statistical software SPSS is used for correlation and regression analysis. Results show that there were negative correlations between DMS and ICE. The correlation coefficients between DMS and ICE are in the range -0.57 ~ -0.45. The way of handling satellite data, calculating methyl sulfur and correlation analysis can be valuable references for the biogeochemistry researchers.

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© 2017, the Authors. Published by Atlantis Press.

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This is an open access article distributed under the CC BY-NC license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/).

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TY  - CONF
AU  - Li Zhao
AU  - Bo Qu
PY  - 2017/05
DA  - 2017/05
TI  - Using Satellite Data to Calculate DimethylSulfide in Greenland Sea
BT  - Proceedings of the 2017 International Conference on Applied Mathematics, Modelling and Statistics Application (AMMSA 2017)
PB  - Atlantis Press
SP  - 148
EP  - 151
SN  - 1951-6851
UR  - https://doi.org/10.2991/ammsa-17.2017.31
DO  - 10.2991/ammsa-17.2017.31
ID  - Zhao2017/05
ER  -