Vertical eddy iron fluxes support primary production in the open Southern Ocean

The Southern Ocean is an important sink of carbon via the biological pump. Here authors run high-resolution physical/biogeochemical simulations of an open-Southern Ocean ecosystem forced with a realistic seasonal cycle and confirm that (sub)mesoscale iron transport across the mixing-layer base susta...

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Published in:Nature Communications
Main Authors: Takaya Uchida, Dhruv Balwada, Ryan P. Abernathey, Galen A. McKinley, Shafer K. Smith, Marina Lévy
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:English
Published: Nature Portfolio 2020
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Science
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Southern Ocean
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-020-14955-0
https://doaj.org/article/b2a6003fac1a456e9306c1a7ca47f68d
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Summary:The Southern Ocean is an important sink of carbon via the biological pump. Here authors run high-resolution physical/biogeochemical simulations of an open-Southern Ocean ecosystem forced with a realistic seasonal cycle and confirm that (sub)mesoscale iron transport across the mixing-layer base sustains primary productivity.

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