Importance of Ekman transport and gyre circulation change on seasonal variation of surface dissolved iron in the western subarctic North Pacific

• Published in: Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
• Main Authors: Nakanowatari, Takuya, Nakamura, Tomohiro, Uchimoto, Keisuke, Nishioka, Jun, Mitsudera, Humio, Wakatsuchi, Masaaki
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: unknown
• Published: American Geophysical Union
• Subjects: 452; Okhotsk; Oyashio; Pacific; Subarctic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2115/72718; https://doi.org/10.1002/2016JC012354

Iron (Fe) is an essential nutrient for marine phytoplankton and it constitutes an important element in the marine carbon cycle in the ocean. This study examined the mechanisms controlling seasonal variation of dissolved Fe (dFe) in the western subarctic North Pacific (WSNP), using an ocean general c...