Improving the inverse modeling of a trace isotope: how precisely can radium-228 fluxes toward the ocean and submarine groundwater discharge be estimated?
International audience Radium-228 (228 Ra), an almost conservative trace isotope in the ocean, supplied from the continental shelves and removed by a known radioactive decay (T 1/2 = 5.75 years), can be used as a proxy to constrain shelf fluxes of other trace elements, such as nutrients, iron, or ra...
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International audience Radium-228 (228 Ra), an almost conservative trace isotope in the ocean, supplied from the continental shelves and removed by a known radioactive decay (T 1/2 = 5.75 years), can be used as a proxy to constrain shelf fluxes of other trace elements, such as nutrients, iron, or rare earth elements. In this study, we perform inverse modeling of a global 228 Ra dataset (including GEOSECS, TTO and GEO-TRACES programs, and, for the first time, data from the Arc-tic and around the Kerguelen Islands) to compute the total 228 Ra fluxes toward the ocean, using the ocean circulation obtained from the NEMO 3.6 model with a 2 • resolution. We optimized the inverse calculation (source regions, cost function) and find a global estimate of the 228 Ra fluxes of 8.01-8.49 × 10 23 atoms yr −1 , more precise and around 20 % lower than previous estimates. The largest fluxes are in the western North Atlantic, the western Pacific and the Indian Ocean, with roughly two-thirds in the Indo-Pacific Basin. An estimate in the Arctic Ocean is provided for the first time (0.43-0.50 × 10 23 atoms yr −1). Local misfits between model and data in the Arctic, the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio regions could result from flaws of the ocean circulation in these regions (resolution, atmospheric forcing). As radium is enriched in groundwater, a large part of the 228 Ra shelf sources comes from submarine groundwater discharge (SGD), a major but poorly known pathway for terrestrial mineral elements , including nutrients, to the ocean. In contrast to the 228 Ra budget, the global estimate of SGD is rather uncon-strained, between 1.3 and 14.7 × 10 13 m 3 yr −1 , due to high uncertainties on the other sources of 228 Ra, especially diffusion from continental shelf sediments. Better precision on SGD cannot be reached by inverse modeling until a proper way to separate the contributions of SGD and diffusive release from sediments at a global scale is found. |
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Improving the inverse modeling of a trace isotope: how precisely can radium-228 fluxes toward the ocean and submarine groundwater discharge be estimated? |
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Improving the inverse modeling of a trace isotope: how precisely can radium-228 fluxes toward the ocean and submarine groundwater discharge be estimated? |
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Improving the inverse modeling of a trace isotope: how precisely can radium-228 fluxes toward the ocean and submarine groundwater discharge be estimated? |
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ftepunivpsaclay:oai:HAL:hal-01833170v1 2024-05-19T07:36:12+00:00 Improving the inverse modeling of a trace isotope: how precisely can radium-228 fluxes toward the ocean and submarine groundwater discharge be estimated? Le Gland, Guillaume Mémery, Laurent Aumont, Olivier Resplandy, Laure Laboratoire des Sciences de l'Environnement Marin (LEMAR) (LEMAR) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut Français de Recherche pour l'Exploitation de la Mer (IFREMER)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Institut Universitaire Européen de la Mer (IUEM) Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université de Brest (UBO)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat : Expérimentations et Approches Numériques (LOCEAN) Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle (MNHN)-Institut de Recherche pour le Développement (IRD)-Université Pierre et Marie Curie - Paris 6 (UPMC)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut Pierre-Simon-Laplace (IPSL (FR_636)) École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-École normale supérieure - Paris (ENS-PSL) Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université Paris Sciences et Lettres (PSL)-Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines (UVSQ)-Commissariat à l'énergie atomique et aux énergies alternatives (CEA)-Université Paris Diderot - Paris 7 (UPD7)-École polytechnique (X)-Centre National d'Études Spatiales Toulouse (CNES)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Scripps Institution of Oceanography (SIO - UC San Diego) University of California San Diego (UC San Diego) University of California (UC)-University of California (UC) ANR-10-LABX-0019,LabexMER,LabexMER Marine Excellence Research: a changing ocean(2010) 2017-07-04 https://hal.science/hal-01833170 https://hal.science/hal-01833170/document https://hal.science/hal-01833170/file/Le-Gland_etal_BG_2017.pdf https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3171-2017 en eng HAL CCSD European Geosciences Union info:eu-repo/semantics/altIdentifier/doi/10.5194/bg-14-3171-2017 hal-01833170 https://hal.science/hal-01833170 https://hal.science/hal-01833170/document https://hal.science/hal-01833170/file/Le-Gland_etal_BG_2017.pdf doi:10.5194/bg-14-3171-2017 IRD: fdi:010070324 info:eu-repo/semantics/OpenAccess ISSN: 1726-4170 EISSN: 1726-4189 Biogeosciences https://hal.science/hal-01833170 Biogeosciences, 2017, 14 (13), pp.3171 - 3189. ⟨10.5194/bg-14-3171-2017⟩ https://www.biogeosciences.net/14/3171/2017/ [PHYS.PHYS.PHYS-GEO-PH]Physics [physics]/Physics [physics]/Geophysics [physics.geo-ph] [SDE.BE]Environmental Sciences/Biodiversity and Ecology [SDU.OCEAN]Sciences of the Universe [physics]/Ocean Atmosphere info:eu-repo/semantics/article Journal articles 2017 ftepunivpsaclay https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-14-3171-2017 2024-04-25T00:48:38Z International audience Radium-228 (228 Ra), an almost conservative trace isotope in the ocean, supplied from the continental shelves and removed by a known radioactive decay (T 1/2 = 5.75 years), can be used as a proxy to constrain shelf fluxes of other trace elements, such as nutrients, iron, or rare earth elements. In this study, we perform inverse modeling of a global 228 Ra dataset (including GEOSECS, TTO and GEO-TRACES programs, and, for the first time, data from the Arc-tic and around the Kerguelen Islands) to compute the total 228 Ra fluxes toward the ocean, using the ocean circulation obtained from the NEMO 3.6 model with a 2 • resolution. We optimized the inverse calculation (source regions, cost function) and find a global estimate of the 228 Ra fluxes of 8.01-8.49 × 10 23 atoms yr −1 , more precise and around 20 % lower than previous estimates. The largest fluxes are in the western North Atlantic, the western Pacific and the Indian Ocean, with roughly two-thirds in the Indo-Pacific Basin. An estimate in the Arctic Ocean is provided for the first time (0.43-0.50 × 10 23 atoms yr −1). Local misfits between model and data in the Arctic, the Gulf Stream and the Kuroshio regions could result from flaws of the ocean circulation in these regions (resolution, atmospheric forcing). As radium is enriched in groundwater, a large part of the 228 Ra shelf sources comes from submarine groundwater discharge (SGD), a major but poorly known pathway for terrestrial mineral elements , including nutrients, to the ocean. In contrast to the 228 Ra budget, the global estimate of SGD is rather uncon-strained, between 1.3 and 14.7 × 10 13 m 3 yr −1 , due to high uncertainties on the other sources of 228 Ra, especially diffusion from continental shelf sediments. Better precision on SGD cannot be reached by inverse modeling until a proper way to separate the contributions of SGD and diffusive release from sediments at a global scale is found. Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean Kerguelen Islands North Atlantic École Polytechnique, Université Paris-Saclay: HAL Biogeosciences 14 13 3171 3189 |