Floats with bio-optical sensors reveal what processes trigger the North Atlantic bloom
The North Atlantic bloom corresponds to a strong seasonal increase in phytoplankton that produces organic carbon through photosynthesis. It is still debated what physical and biological conditions trigger the bloom, because comprehensive time series of the vertical distribution of phytoplankton biom...
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ftmit:oai:dspace.mit.edu:1721.1/115264 2023-06-11T04:14:18+02:00 Floats with bio-optical sensors reveal what processes trigger the North Atlantic bloom Claustre, H. Mignot, Alexandre Ferrari, Raffaele Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Mignot, Alexandre Ferrari, Raffaele 2018-04-27T13:39:47Z application/pdf http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115264 unknown Nature Publishing Group http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02143-6 Nature Communications 2041-1723 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115264 Mignot, A. et al. “Floats with Bio-Optical Sensors Reveal What Processes Trigger the North Atlantic Bloom.” Nature Communications 9, 1 (January 2018): 190 © 2017 The Author(s) orcid:0000-0002-3298-8055 orcid:0000-0002-3736-1956 Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Nature Communications Article http://purl.org/eprint/type/JournalArticle 2018 ftmit https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02143-6 2023-05-29T07:24:51Z The North Atlantic bloom corresponds to a strong seasonal increase in phytoplankton that produces organic carbon through photosynthesis. It is still debated what physical and biological conditions trigger the bloom, because comprehensive time series of the vertical distribution of phytoplankton biomass are lacking. Vertical profiles from nine floats that sampled the waters of the North Atlantic every few days for a couple of years reveal that phytoplankton populations start growing in early winter at very weak rates. A proper bloom with rapidly accelerating population growth rates instead starts only in spring when atmospheric cooling subsides and the mixed layer rapidly shoals. While the weak accumulation of phytoplankton in winter is crucial to maintaining a viable population, the spring bloom dominates the overall seasonal production of organic carbon. Article in Journal/Newspaper North Atlantic DSpace@MIT (Massachusetts Institute of Technology) Nature Communications 9 1 |
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The North Atlantic bloom corresponds to a strong seasonal increase in phytoplankton that produces organic carbon through photosynthesis. It is still debated what physical and biological conditions trigger the bloom, because comprehensive time series of the vertical distribution of phytoplankton biomass are lacking. Vertical profiles from nine floats that sampled the waters of the North Atlantic every few days for a couple of years reveal that phytoplankton populations start growing in early winter at very weak rates. A proper bloom with rapidly accelerating population growth rates instead starts only in spring when atmospheric cooling subsides and the mixed layer rapidly shoals. While the weak accumulation of phytoplankton in winter is crucial to maintaining a viable population, the spring bloom dominates the overall seasonal production of organic carbon. |
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Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences Mignot, Alexandre Ferrari, Raffaele |
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Floats with bio-optical sensors reveal what processes trigger the North Atlantic bloom |
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http://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41467-017-02143-6 Nature Communications 2041-1723 http://hdl.handle.net/1721.1/115264 Mignot, A. et al. “Floats with Bio-Optical Sensors Reveal What Processes Trigger the North Atlantic Bloom.” Nature Communications 9, 1 (January 2018): 190 © 2017 The Author(s) orcid:0000-0002-3298-8055 orcid:0000-0002-3736-1956 |
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