Determination of the freshwater origin of Coastal Oyashio Water using humic-like fluorescence in dissolved organic matter
Coastal Oyashio Water (COW), defined as a water mass with a temperature lower than 2 degrees C and a salinity lower than 33.0, is distributed in the North Pacific Ocean off southeastern Hokkaido, Japan, from winter to spring. COW is rich in macronutrients and dissolved iron and is thus considered to...
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fthokunivhus:oai:eprints.lib.hokudai.ac.jp:2115/71648 2023-05-15T18:17:16+02:00 Determination of the freshwater origin of Coastal Oyashio Water using humic-like fluorescence in dissolved organic matter Mizuno, Yu Nishioka, Jun Tanaka, Takahiro Tada, Yuya Suzuki, Koji Tsuzuki, Yuta Sugimoto, Atsuko Yamashita, Youhei http://hdl.handle.net/2115/71648 https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-018-0477-x eng eng Springer http://hdl.handle.net/2115/71648 Journal of oceanography, 74(5): 509-521 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10872-018-0477-x The final publication is available at Springer via http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10872-018-0477-x http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ CC-BY Coastal Oyashio Water Freshwater end-member River water Sea-ice melt water Dissolved organic matter Humic fluorescence 450 article fthokunivhus https://doi.org/10.1007/s10872-018-0477-x 2022-11-18T01:05:05Z Coastal Oyashio Water (COW), defined as a water mass with a temperature lower than 2 degrees C and a salinity lower than 33.0, is distributed in the North Pacific Ocean off southeastern Hokkaido, Japan, from winter to spring. COW is rich in macronutrients and dissolved iron and is thus considered to affect the spring phytoplankton blooms in the Oyashio region. Although river water and sea-ice melt water have been considered freshwater end-members of COW, the contributions of these freshwater sources to COW have not been well described. In this study, the humic-like components in dissolved organic matter were first applied as a parameter to evaluate the freshwater end-members of COW in March 2015. Linear regressions with negative slopes were determined between the humic-like components and the salinity of COW. The intercepts of the regressions against the humic-like components were within the ranges of those observed for the local rivers of Hokkaido but were very different from those of sea ice. These findings suggest that river water contributed to the COW observed here as a freshwater end-member, although the contribution of sea-ice melt water to COW could not be evaluated. This novel approach also highlighted two different less-saline water masses in COW. The first was characterized by a lower temperature and relatively high levels of humic-like components, while the second was higher in temperature and had higher levels of humic-like components. It is suggested that these different characteristics are due to the contributions of water from different rivers and/or different effects of sea-ice melt water. Article in Journal/Newspaper Sea ice Hokkaido University Collection of Scholarly and Academic Papers (HUSCAP) Pacific Oyashio ENVELOPE(157.000,157.000,50.000,50.000) Journal of Oceanography 74 5 509 521 |
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Coastal Oyashio Water Freshwater end-member River water Sea-ice melt water Dissolved organic matter Humic fluorescence 450 Mizuno, Yu Nishioka, Jun Tanaka, Takahiro Tada, Yuya Suzuki, Koji Tsuzuki, Yuta Sugimoto, Atsuko Yamashita, Youhei Determination of the freshwater origin of Coastal Oyashio Water using humic-like fluorescence in dissolved organic matter |
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Coastal Oyashio Water (COW), defined as a water mass with a temperature lower than 2 degrees C and a salinity lower than 33.0, is distributed in the North Pacific Ocean off southeastern Hokkaido, Japan, from winter to spring. COW is rich in macronutrients and dissolved iron and is thus considered to affect the spring phytoplankton blooms in the Oyashio region. Although river water and sea-ice melt water have been considered freshwater end-members of COW, the contributions of these freshwater sources to COW have not been well described. In this study, the humic-like components in dissolved organic matter were first applied as a parameter to evaluate the freshwater end-members of COW in March 2015. Linear regressions with negative slopes were determined between the humic-like components and the salinity of COW. The intercepts of the regressions against the humic-like components were within the ranges of those observed for the local rivers of Hokkaido but were very different from those of sea ice. These findings suggest that river water contributed to the COW observed here as a freshwater end-member, although the contribution of sea-ice melt water to COW could not be evaluated. This novel approach also highlighted two different less-saline water masses in COW. The first was characterized by a lower temperature and relatively high levels of humic-like components, while the second was higher in temperature and had higher levels of humic-like components. It is suggested that these different characteristics are due to the contributions of water from different rivers and/or different effects of sea-ice melt water. |
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Mizuno, Yu Nishioka, Jun Tanaka, Takahiro Tada, Yuya Suzuki, Koji Tsuzuki, Yuta Sugimoto, Atsuko Yamashita, Youhei |
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Mizuno, Yu Nishioka, Jun Tanaka, Takahiro Tada, Yuya Suzuki, Koji Tsuzuki, Yuta Sugimoto, Atsuko Yamashita, Youhei |
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Determination of the freshwater origin of Coastal Oyashio Water using humic-like fluorescence in dissolved organic matter |
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Determination of the freshwater origin of Coastal Oyashio Water using humic-like fluorescence in dissolved organic matter |
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Determination of the freshwater origin of Coastal Oyashio Water using humic-like fluorescence in dissolved organic matter |
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Determination of the freshwater origin of Coastal Oyashio Water using humic-like fluorescence in dissolved organic matter |
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Determination of the freshwater origin of Coastal Oyashio Water using humic-like fluorescence in dissolved organic matter |
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determination of the freshwater origin of coastal oyashio water using humic-like fluorescence in dissolved organic matter |
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