The 79°N Glacier cavity modulates subglacial iron export to the NE Greenland Shelf
Abstract Approximately half of the freshwater discharged from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets enters the ocean subsurface as a result of basal ice melt, or runoff draining via the grounding line of a deep ice shelf or marine-terminating glacier. Around Antarctica and parts of northern Greenla...
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crspringernat:10.1038/s41467-021-23093-0 2023-05-15T14:13:12+02:00 The 79°N Glacier cavity modulates subglacial iron export to the NE Greenland Shelf Krisch, Stephan Hopwood, Mark James Schaffer, Janin Al-Hashem, Ali Höfer, Juan Rutgers van der Loeff, Michiel M. Conway, Tim M. Summers, Brent A. Lodeiro, Pablo Ardiningsih, Indah Steffens, Tim Achterberg, Eric Pieter 2021 http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23093-0 http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23093-0.pdf http://www.nature.com/articles/s41467-021-23093-0 en eng Springer Science and Business Media LLC https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 CC-BY Nature Communications volume 12, issue 1 ISSN 2041-1723 General Physics and Astronomy General Biochemistry, Genetics and Molecular Biology General Chemistry journal-article 2021 crspringernat https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-23093-0 2022-01-04T16:02:40Z Abstract Approximately half of the freshwater discharged from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets enters the ocean subsurface as a result of basal ice melt, or runoff draining via the grounding line of a deep ice shelf or marine-terminating glacier. Around Antarctica and parts of northern Greenland, this freshwater then experiences prolonged residence times in large cavities beneath floating ice tongues. Due to the inaccessibility of these cavities, it is unclear how they moderate the freshwater associated supply of nutrients such as iron (Fe) to the ocean. Here, we show that subglacial dissolved Fe export from Nioghalvfjerdsbrae (the ‘79°N Glacier’) is decoupled from particulate inputs including freshwater Fe supply, likely due to the prolonged ~162-day residence time of Atlantic water beneath Greenland’s largest floating ice-tongue. Our findings indicate that the overturning rate and particle-dissolved phase exchanges in ice cavities exert a dominant control on subglacial nutrient supply to shelf regions. Article in Journal/Newspaper Antarc* Antarctic Antarctica glacier Greenland Ice Shelf Springer Nature (via Crossref) Antarctic Greenland Nature Communications 12 1 |
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Abstract Approximately half of the freshwater discharged from the Greenland and Antarctic Ice Sheets enters the ocean subsurface as a result of basal ice melt, or runoff draining via the grounding line of a deep ice shelf or marine-terminating glacier. Around Antarctica and parts of northern Greenland, this freshwater then experiences prolonged residence times in large cavities beneath floating ice tongues. Due to the inaccessibility of these cavities, it is unclear how they moderate the freshwater associated supply of nutrients such as iron (Fe) to the ocean. Here, we show that subglacial dissolved Fe export from Nioghalvfjerdsbrae (the ‘79°N Glacier’) is decoupled from particulate inputs including freshwater Fe supply, likely due to the prolonged ~162-day residence time of Atlantic water beneath Greenland’s largest floating ice-tongue. Our findings indicate that the overturning rate and particle-dissolved phase exchanges in ice cavities exert a dominant control on subglacial nutrient supply to shelf regions. |
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Krisch, Stephan Hopwood, Mark James Schaffer, Janin Al-Hashem, Ali Höfer, Juan Rutgers van der Loeff, Michiel M. Conway, Tim M. Summers, Brent A. Lodeiro, Pablo Ardiningsih, Indah Steffens, Tim Achterberg, Eric Pieter |
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Krisch, Stephan Hopwood, Mark James Schaffer, Janin Al-Hashem, Ali Höfer, Juan Rutgers van der Loeff, Michiel M. Conway, Tim M. Summers, Brent A. Lodeiro, Pablo Ardiningsih, Indah Steffens, Tim Achterberg, Eric Pieter |
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The 79°N Glacier cavity modulates subglacial iron export to the NE Greenland Shelf |
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The 79°N Glacier cavity modulates subglacial iron export to the NE Greenland Shelf |
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The 79°N Glacier cavity modulates subglacial iron export to the NE Greenland Shelf |
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The 79°N Glacier cavity modulates subglacial iron export to the NE Greenland Shelf |
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The 79°N Glacier cavity modulates subglacial iron export to the NE Greenland Shelf |
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79°n glacier cavity modulates subglacial iron export to the ne greenland shelf |
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