Cornell University: Atmospheric Winds Carry Nutrients From Africa to Amazon
August 23, 2019
August 23, 2019
ITHACA, New York, Aug. 23 [TNSscienceresearch] -- Cornell University issued the following news:
Buoyed by an atmospheric "superhighway," smoke from lightning-sparked African savanna and forest fires deposit unexpectedly large amounts of nutrient-rich phosphorus in a river basin an ocean away.
"It's so counterintuitive that the air would deposit this amount of nutrition for the land," said Natalie Mahowald, the Irving Porter Church Professor of Engine . . .
Buoyed by an atmospheric "superhighway," smoke from lightning-sparked African savanna and forest fires deposit unexpectedly large amounts of nutrient-rich phosphorus in a river basin an ocean away.
"It's so counterintuitive that the air would deposit this amount of nutrition for the land," said Natalie Mahowald, the Irving Porter Church Professor of Engine . . .