Counteracting Contributions of the Upper and Lower Meridional Overturning Limbs to the North Atlantic Nutrient Budgets: Enhanced Imbalance in 2010
26 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables.-- This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License The North Atlantic Basin is a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) due in part to the extensive plankton blooms which form there supported by...
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ftcsic:oai:digital.csic.es:10261/245456 2024-02-11T10:04:29+01:00 Counteracting Contributions of the Upper and Lower Meridional Overturning Limbs to the North Atlantic Nutrient Budgets: Enhanced Imbalance in 2010 Carracedo, L. Mercier, Herlé McDonagh, E. Rosón, Gabriel Sanders, R. Moore, C. M. Torres-Valdés, S. Brown, Peter J. Lherminier, Pascale Pérez, Fiz F. European Commission 2021 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/245456 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006898 https://doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 en eng American Geophysical Union #PLACEHOLDER_PARENT_METADATA_VALUE# info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/727852 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/817578 info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/820989 Publisher's version https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB006898 Sí Global Biogeochemical Cycles 35(6): e2020GB006898 (2021) 0886-6236 http://hdl.handle.net/10261/245456 doi:10.1029/2020GB006898 1944-9224 http://dx.doi.org/10.13039/501100000780 open artículo http://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_6501 2021 ftcsic https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GB00689810.13039/501100000780 2024-01-16T11:10:56Z 26 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables.-- This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License The North Atlantic Basin is a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) due in part to the extensive plankton blooms which form there supported by nutrients supplied by the three-dimensional ocean circulation. Hence, changes in ocean circulation and/or stratification may influence primary production and biological carbon export. In this study, we assess this possibility by evaluating inorganic nutrient budgets for 2004 and 2010 in the North Atlantic based on observations from the transatlantic A05-24.5°N and the Greenland-Portugal OVIDE hydrographic sections, to which we applied a box inverse model to solve the circulation and estimate the across-section nutrient transports. Full water column nutrient budgets were split into upper and lower meridional overturning circulation (MOC) limbs. According to our results, anomalous circulation in early 2010, linked to extreme negative NAO conditions, led to an enhanced northward advection of more nutrient-rich waters by the upper overturning limb, which resulted in a significant nitrate and phosphate convergence north of 24.5°N. Combined with heaving of the isopycnals, this anomalous circulation event in 2010 favored an enhancement of the nutrient consumption (5.7 ± 4.1 kmol-P s−1) and associated biological CO2 uptake (0.25 ± 0.18 Pg-C yr−1, upper-bound estimate), which represents a 50% of the mean annual sea–air CO2 flux in the region. Our results also suggest a transient state of deep silicate divergence in both years. Both results are indicative of a MOC-driven modulation of the biological carbon uptake (by the upper MOC limb) and nutrient inventories (by the lower MOC limb) in the North Atlantic This study is a contribution to OVIDE (co-funded by the IFREMER, CNRS/INSU/LEFE), Blue-Action (EU Horizon 2020 grant agreement No 727852), ABC-Fluxes (NERC-funded grant No NE/M005046/1) projects, and CLASS (NERC National ... Article in Journal/Newspaper Greenland North Atlantic Digital.CSIC (Spanish National Research Council) Greenland Global Biogeochemical Cycles 35 6 |
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26 pages, 6 figures, 5 tables.-- This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivs License The North Atlantic Basin is a major sink for atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) due in part to the extensive plankton blooms which form there supported by nutrients supplied by the three-dimensional ocean circulation. Hence, changes in ocean circulation and/or stratification may influence primary production and biological carbon export. In this study, we assess this possibility by evaluating inorganic nutrient budgets for 2004 and 2010 in the North Atlantic based on observations from the transatlantic A05-24.5°N and the Greenland-Portugal OVIDE hydrographic sections, to which we applied a box inverse model to solve the circulation and estimate the across-section nutrient transports. Full water column nutrient budgets were split into upper and lower meridional overturning circulation (MOC) limbs. According to our results, anomalous circulation in early 2010, linked to extreme negative NAO conditions, led to an enhanced northward advection of more nutrient-rich waters by the upper overturning limb, which resulted in a significant nitrate and phosphate convergence north of 24.5°N. Combined with heaving of the isopycnals, this anomalous circulation event in 2010 favored an enhancement of the nutrient consumption (5.7 ± 4.1 kmol-P s−1) and associated biological CO2 uptake (0.25 ± 0.18 Pg-C yr−1, upper-bound estimate), which represents a 50% of the mean annual sea–air CO2 flux in the region. Our results also suggest a transient state of deep silicate divergence in both years. Both results are indicative of a MOC-driven modulation of the biological carbon uptake (by the upper MOC limb) and nutrient inventories (by the lower MOC limb) in the North Atlantic This study is a contribution to OVIDE (co-funded by the IFREMER, CNRS/INSU/LEFE), Blue-Action (EU Horizon 2020 grant agreement No 727852), ABC-Fluxes (NERC-funded grant No NE/M005046/1) projects, and CLASS (NERC National ... |
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Carracedo, L. Mercier, Herlé McDonagh, E. Rosón, Gabriel Sanders, R. Moore, C. M. Torres-Valdés, S. Brown, Peter J. Lherminier, Pascale Pérez, Fiz F. Counteracting Contributions of the Upper and Lower Meridional Overturning Limbs to the North Atlantic Nutrient Budgets: Enhanced Imbalance in 2010 |
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Counteracting Contributions of the Upper and Lower Meridional Overturning Limbs to the North Atlantic Nutrient Budgets: Enhanced Imbalance in 2010 |
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Counteracting Contributions of the Upper and Lower Meridional Overturning Limbs to the North Atlantic Nutrient Budgets: Enhanced Imbalance in 2010 |
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Counteracting Contributions of the Upper and Lower Meridional Overturning Limbs to the North Atlantic Nutrient Budgets: Enhanced Imbalance in 2010 |
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Counteracting Contributions of the Upper and Lower Meridional Overturning Limbs to the North Atlantic Nutrient Budgets: Enhanced Imbalance in 2010 |
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Counteracting Contributions of the Upper and Lower Meridional Overturning Limbs to the North Atlantic Nutrient Budgets: Enhanced Imbalance in 2010 |
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