Summertime productivity and carbon export potential in the Weddell Sea, with a focus on the waters adjacent to Larsen C Ice Shelf

• Main Authors: Flynn, Raquel, Bornman, Thomas, Burger, Jessica, Smith, Shantelle, Spence, Kurt, Fawcett, Sarah
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2021
• Subjects: Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Fimbul Ice Shelf; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Weddell; Weddell Sea; Antarc*; Antarctica; Ice Shelf; Ice Shelves; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-2021-122; https://bg.copernicus.org/preprints/bg-2021-122/

The Weddell Sea (WS) represents a point of origin in the Southern Ocean where globally-important water masses form. Biological activities in WS surface waters thus affect large-scale ocean biogeochemistry. During summer 2018/2019, we measured net primary production (NPP), nitrogen (nitrate, ammonium...