Hydrographic and pore water, core incubation, and sediment leachate geochemical data from Ameralik Fjord and Nuup Kangerlua (Godhäbsfjord) in Southwest Greenland, 2019

• Main Authors: Wang, Tong, Ng, Hong Chin, Hatton, Jade Elizabeth, Hammond, Samantha J, Woodward, E Malcolm S, Meire, Lorenz, Hendry, Katharine R
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2023
• Subjects: CTD data; isotope; pore water; sediment; silicon; Greenland; Ameralik; Ameralik fjord; greenlandic; Labrador Sea
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.961726; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.961726

This data set includes hydrographic and pore water and core incubation silicic acid concentration and isotope measurements, sediment Si-HCl and Si-Alk contents and isotope measurements, and pore water nutrient, major, and trace element concentrations measured in the fjords Ameralik Fjord and Nuup Kangerlua (Godhäbsfjord) in southwest Greenland. Data was collected during a research expedition, R/V Tulu 2019, in September 2019, as part of ERC funded (678371) project ICY-LAB (Isotope CYcling in the LABrador Sea) and Royal Society funded (RGF\EA\181036) project Biogeochemical Cycling in Greenlandic Fjords. Temperature and salinity data derived from CTD rosette casts were recorded at station AM10 in Ameralik Fjord and station GF-inlet in Nuup Kangerlua. Fjord water sampling was carried out at 2 stations (AM10 and AM12) in Ameralik Fjord and station GF-inlet in Nuup Kangerlua using Towfish and Niskin bottles for near surface and sub surface samples, respectively. For bottle samples, temperature and salinity were measured using an EXO3 Multiparameter Water Quality Sonde. Fjord sediments were collected by a large bore sediment corer (Aquatic Research Instruments) at station AM10a in Ameralik Fjord and station GF-inlet in Nuup Kangerlua. Pore waters were extracted from the sediment cores using Rhizon samplers and core incubation experiments were carried out following the methodology of Hammond et al. (2004, doi:10.4319/lom.2004.2.146). Sediment reactive silica was leached using a sequential extraction method from Michalopoulos and Aller (2004, doi:10.1016/j.gca.2003.07.018) and Pickering et al. (2020, doi:10.1029/2020GL087877).