Feedback Processes Involving Marine Chemistry and Climate

4 Feedback Processes Involving Marine Chemistry and Climate 

Feedbacks within the Marine Segment of the Carbon Cycle 

Meira Eilho, B. A. Callander, N. Harris, A. Kattenberg and K. Masked, Cambridge University 

DMS has been observed in the marine atmosphere since the early 1970s, but it was not until the mid-1980s that there was interest in this gas as being a natural source for sulfate CCN. Sulfate aerosols are, in number terms, the dominant source of CCN. The major role clouds play in the climate system leads to possible climatic implications if changes to DMS production occurred. Furthermore, the dependence of this production on environment conditions means that scope for a feedback process arises this feedback is called the Charlson hypothesis.  

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