Surface ocean microbiota determine cloud precursors

Karine Sellegri; Alessia Nicosia; Evelyn Freney; Julia Uitz; Melilotus Thyssen; Gérald Grégori; Anja Engel; Birthe Zäncker; Nils Haëntjens; Sébastien Mas; David Picard; Alexia Saint-Macary; Maija Peltola; Clémence Rose; Jonathan Trueblood; Dominique Lefevre; Barbara D’Anna; Karine Desboeufs; Nicholas Meskhidze; Cécile Guieu; Cliff S. Law

doi:10.1038/s41598-020-78097-5

Surface ocean microbiota determine cloud precursors

Karine Sellegri, Alessia Nicosia, Evelyn Freney, Julia Uitz, Melilotus Thyssen, Gérald Grégori, Anja Engel, Birthe Zäncker, Nils Haëntjens, Sébastien Mas, David Picard, Alexia Saint-Macary, Maija Peltola, Clémence Rose, Jonathan Trueblood, Dominique Lefevre, Barbara D’Anna, Karine Desboeufs, Nicholas Meskhidze, Cécile GuieuCliff S. Law

Center for Prototype Climate Modeling

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One pathway by which the oceans influence climate is via the emission of sea spray that may subsequently influence cloud properties. Sea spray emissions are known to be dependent on atmospheric and oceanic physicochemical parameters, but the potential role of ocean biology on sea spray fluxes remains poorly characterized. Here we show a consistent significant relationship between seawater nanophytoplankton cell abundances and sea-spray derived Cloud Condensation Nuclei (CCN) number fluxes, generated using water from three different oceanic regions. This sensitivity of CCN number fluxes to ocean biology is currently unaccounted for in climate models yet our measurements indicate that it influences fluxes by more than one order of magnitude over the range of phytoplankton investigated.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	281
Journal	Scientific reports
Volume	11
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78097-5
State	Published - Dec 2021

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Sellegri, K., Nicosia, A., Freney, E., Uitz, J., Thyssen, M., Grégori, G., Engel, A., Zäncker, B., Haëntjens, N., Mas, S., Picard, D., Saint-Macary, A., Peltola, M., Rose, C., Trueblood, J., Lefevre, D., D’Anna, B., Desboeufs, K., Meskhidze, N., ... Law, C. S. (2021). Surface ocean microbiota determine cloud precursors. Scientific reports, 11(1), Article 281. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78097-5

Sellegri, K, Nicosia, A, Freney, E, Uitz, J, Thyssen, M, Grégori, G, Engel, A, Zäncker, B, Haëntjens, N, Mas, S, Picard, D, Saint-Macary, A, Peltola, M, Rose, C, Trueblood, J, Lefevre, D, D’Anna, B, Desboeufs, K, Meskhidze, N, Guieu, C & Law, CS 2021, 'Surface ocean microbiota determine cloud precursors', Scientific reports, vol. 11, no. 1, 281. https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-020-78097-5

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