Modelling the impact of changing riverine permafrost input on an Arctic coastal ecosystem
The Arctic ocean receives 11% of the global river discharge and the Arctic rivers drain large permafrost rich catchments. Where these rivers outflow into the marginal shelf seas of the Arctic ocean the terrestrial dissolved organic matter (tDOM) which they transport has an important role to play in...
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ftawi:oai:epic.awi.de:54013 2024-09-15T17:51:20+00:00 Modelling the impact of changing riverine permafrost input on an Arctic coastal ecosystem Bedington, Michael Torres, Ricardo Polimene, Luca Mann, Paul James Strauss, Jens 2020 application/pdf https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54013/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54013/1/EGU2020-20689-print.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20689 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.8b139252-b137-45e9-a210-3c5096aac67a unknown https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54013/1/EGU2020-20689-print.pdf Bedington, M. , Torres, R. , Polimene, L. , Mann, P. J. orcid:0000-0002-6221-3533 and Strauss, J. orcid:0000-0003-4678-4982 (2020) Modelling the impact of changing riverine permafrost input on an Arctic coastal ecosystem , EGU General Assembly, 2020 - unspecified . doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20689 <https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20689> , hdl:10013/epic.8b139252-b137-45e9-a210-3c5096aac67a EPIC3EGU General Assembly, 2020 Conference notRev 2020 ftawi https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20689 2024-06-24T04:26:11Z The Arctic ocean receives 11% of the global river discharge and the Arctic rivers drain large permafrost rich catchments. Where these rivers outflow into the marginal shelf seas of the Arctic ocean the terrestrial dissolved organic matter (tDOM) which they transport has an important role to play in the coastal ecosystem. This tDom is derived from inland permafrost and as it thaws under future climate scenarios there are expected to be changes to both the composition and quantity of riverine tDOM. At the same time there will be changes to the seasonality and magnitude of river discharge, due to increased precipitation and earlier snow melt, and to the light availability, due to reduced seasonal sea ice. To understand the possible impact of these changes on the coastal ecosystem it is important to understand the present role of permafrost derived tDOM and the possible changes to the nearshore circulation. We model the hydrodynamics of the extensive shallow shelf of the Laptev sea, into which drains the Lena river – the 13th largest in the world by discharge. The output from the hydrodynamic model is used to drive the ecosystem model ERSEM which has been adapted to explicitly include a permafrost tDOM input. This coupled model system allows us to investigate both the role of present day tDOM in an Arctic coastal ecosystem and to hypothesise on the impact of increases in future. In particular we attempt to quantify the efficacy of the microbial carbon pump under different tDOM inputs. Conference Object Arctic Arctic Ocean Ice laptev Laptev Sea lena river permafrost Sea ice Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar- and Marine Research (AWI): ePIC (electronic Publication Information Center) |
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The Arctic ocean receives 11% of the global river discharge and the Arctic rivers drain large permafrost rich catchments. Where these rivers outflow into the marginal shelf seas of the Arctic ocean the terrestrial dissolved organic matter (tDOM) which they transport has an important role to play in the coastal ecosystem. This tDom is derived from inland permafrost and as it thaws under future climate scenarios there are expected to be changes to both the composition and quantity of riverine tDOM. At the same time there will be changes to the seasonality and magnitude of river discharge, due to increased precipitation and earlier snow melt, and to the light availability, due to reduced seasonal sea ice. To understand the possible impact of these changes on the coastal ecosystem it is important to understand the present role of permafrost derived tDOM and the possible changes to the nearshore circulation. We model the hydrodynamics of the extensive shallow shelf of the Laptev sea, into which drains the Lena river – the 13th largest in the world by discharge. The output from the hydrodynamic model is used to drive the ecosystem model ERSEM which has been adapted to explicitly include a permafrost tDOM input. This coupled model system allows us to investigate both the role of present day tDOM in an Arctic coastal ecosystem and to hypothesise on the impact of increases in future. In particular we attempt to quantify the efficacy of the microbial carbon pump under different tDOM inputs. |
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Bedington, Michael Torres, Ricardo Polimene, Luca Mann, Paul James Strauss, Jens |
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Bedington, Michael Torres, Ricardo Polimene, Luca Mann, Paul James Strauss, Jens Modelling the impact of changing riverine permafrost input on an Arctic coastal ecosystem |
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Bedington, Michael Torres, Ricardo Polimene, Luca Mann, Paul James Strauss, Jens |
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Modelling the impact of changing riverine permafrost input on an Arctic coastal ecosystem |
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Modelling the impact of changing riverine permafrost input on an Arctic coastal ecosystem |
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Modelling the impact of changing riverine permafrost input on an Arctic coastal ecosystem |
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modelling the impact of changing riverine permafrost input on an arctic coastal ecosystem |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54013/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54013/1/EGU2020-20689-print.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20689 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.8b139252-b137-45e9-a210-3c5096aac67a |
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https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/54013/1/EGU2020-20689-print.pdf Bedington, M. , Torres, R. , Polimene, L. , Mann, P. J. orcid:0000-0002-6221-3533 and Strauss, J. orcid:0000-0003-4678-4982 (2020) Modelling the impact of changing riverine permafrost input on an Arctic coastal ecosystem , EGU General Assembly, 2020 - unspecified . doi:10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20689 <https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-egu2020-20689> , hdl:10013/epic.8b139252-b137-45e9-a210-3c5096aac67a |
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