Intensive mixing along an island chain controls oceanic biogeochemical cycles

• Published in: Global Biogeochemical Cycles
• Main Authors: Nishioka, Jun, Nakatsuka, Takeshi, Watanabe, Yutaka W., Yasuda, Ichiro, Kuma, Kenshi, Ogawa, Hiroshi, Ebuchi, Naoto, Scherbinin, Alexey, Volkov, Yuri N., Shiraiwa, Takayuki, Wakatsuchi, Masaaki
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: Amer geophysical union
• Subjects: iron; islands chain mixing; biogeochemical cycle; subarctic North Pacific; IPY-GEOTRACES; 452; Okhotsk; Pacific; Iron Islands; IPY; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/54810; https://doi.org/10.1002/gbc.20088

The subarctic Pacific is a high-nutrient low-chlorophyll (HNLC) region in which phytoplankton growth is broadly limited by iron (Fe) availability. However, even with Fe limitation, the western subarctic Pacific (WSP) has significant phytoplankton growth and greater seasonal variability in lower trop...