Robotic Observations of Dust Storm Enhancement of Carbon Biomass in the North Pacific

@article{Bishop2002RoboticOO,
  title={Robotic Observations of Dust Storm Enhancement of Carbon Biomass in the North Pacific},
  author={James K. B. Bishop and Russ E. Davis and Jeffrey T. Sherman},
  journal={Science},
  year={2002},
  volume={298},
  pages={817 - 821},
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:38762011}
}
High-frequency observations of upper ocean particulate organic carbon variability show a near doubling of biomass in the mixed layer over a 2-week period after the passage of a cloud of Gobi desert dust.
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