Detection of Coccolithophore Blooms With BioGeoChemical‐Argo Floats
International audience Coccolithophores (calcifying phytoplankton) form extensive blooms in temperate and subpolar oceans as evidenced from ocean-color satellites. This study examines the potential to detect coccolithophore blooms with BioGeoChemical-Argo (BGC-Argo) floats, autonomous ocean profiler...
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fttriple:oai:gotriple.eu:10670/1.x34tx3 2023-05-15T18:25:46+02:00 Detection of Coccolithophore Blooms With BioGeoChemical‐Argo Floats Terrats, L. Claustre, Hervé Cornec, M. Mangin, Alain Neukermans, G. ACRI ST, Nice, France Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (LOV) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV) Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Universiteit Gent = Ghent University Belgium (UGENT) Flanders Marine Institute VLIZ 2020-12-16 https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090559 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03099761/file/2020GL090559.pdf https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03099761 en eng HAL CCSD American Geophysical Union hal-03099761 doi:10.1029/2020GL090559 10670/1.x34tx3 https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03099761/file/2020GL090559.pdf https://hal.archives-ouvertes.fr/hal-03099761 lic_creative-commons other Hyper Article en Ligne - Sciences de l'Homme et de la Société ISSN: 0094-8276 EISSN: 1944-8007 Geophysical Research Letters Geophysical Research Letters, American Geophysical Union, 2020, 47 (23), ⟨10.1029/2020GL090559⟩ envir geo Journal Article https://vocabularies.coar-repositories.org/resource_types/c_6501/ 2020 fttriple https://doi.org/10.1029/2020GL090559 2023-01-22T18:52:00Z International audience Coccolithophores (calcifying phytoplankton) form extensive blooms in temperate and subpolar oceans as evidenced from ocean-color satellites. This study examines the potential to detect coccolithophore blooms with BioGeoChemical-Argo (BGC-Argo) floats, autonomous ocean profilers equipped with bio-optical and physicochemical sensors. We first matched float data to ocean-color satellite data of calcite concentration to select floats that sampled coccolithophore blooms. We identified two floats in the Southern Ocean, which measured the particulate beam attenuation coefficient (c p) in addition to two core BGC-Argo variables, Chlorophyll-a concentration ([Chl-a]) and the particle backscattering coefficient (b bp). We show that coccolithophore blooms can be identified from floats by distinctively high values of (1) the b bp /c p ratio, a proxy for the refractive index of suspended particles, and (2) the b bp /[Chl-a] ratio, measurable by any BGC-Argo float. The latter thus paves the way to global investigations of environmental control of coccolithophore blooms and their role in carbon export. Plain Language Summary Coccolithophores are a group of phytoplankton that form an armor of calcite plates. Coccolithophores may form intense blooms which can be identified from space by so-called ocean-color satellites, providing global images of the color of the surface ocean. BioGeoChemical-Argo (BGC-Argo) floats, robots profiling down to 2,000 m with a variety of physicochemical and bio-optical sensors, present an increasingly attractive and cost-effective platform to study phytoplankton blooms and their impact on oceanic biogeochemical cycles. We show that coccolithophore blooms can be detected by BGC-Argo floats with high confidence, hence providing a new way to study them at the global scale as well as their role in sinking carbon. Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean Unknown Southern Ocean Geophysical Research Letters 47 23 |
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International audience Coccolithophores (calcifying phytoplankton) form extensive blooms in temperate and subpolar oceans as evidenced from ocean-color satellites. This study examines the potential to detect coccolithophore blooms with BioGeoChemical-Argo (BGC-Argo) floats, autonomous ocean profilers equipped with bio-optical and physicochemical sensors. We first matched float data to ocean-color satellite data of calcite concentration to select floats that sampled coccolithophore blooms. We identified two floats in the Southern Ocean, which measured the particulate beam attenuation coefficient (c p) in addition to two core BGC-Argo variables, Chlorophyll-a concentration ([Chl-a]) and the particle backscattering coefficient (b bp). We show that coccolithophore blooms can be identified from floats by distinctively high values of (1) the b bp /c p ratio, a proxy for the refractive index of suspended particles, and (2) the b bp /[Chl-a] ratio, measurable by any BGC-Argo float. The latter thus paves the way to global investigations of environmental control of coccolithophore blooms and their role in carbon export. Plain Language Summary Coccolithophores are a group of phytoplankton that form an armor of calcite plates. Coccolithophores may form intense blooms which can be identified from space by so-called ocean-color satellites, providing global images of the color of the surface ocean. BioGeoChemical-Argo (BGC-Argo) floats, robots profiling down to 2,000 m with a variety of physicochemical and bio-optical sensors, present an increasingly attractive and cost-effective platform to study phytoplankton blooms and their impact on oceanic biogeochemical cycles. We show that coccolithophore blooms can be detected by BGC-Argo floats with high confidence, hence providing a new way to study them at the global scale as well as their role in sinking carbon. |
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ACRI ST, Nice, France Laboratoire d'océanographie de Villefranche (LOV) Institut national des sciences de l'Univers (INSU - CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Institut de la Mer de Villefranche (IMEV) Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Sorbonne Université (SU)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS) Universiteit Gent = Ghent University Belgium (UGENT) Flanders Marine Institute VLIZ |
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Detection of Coccolithophore Blooms With BioGeoChemical‐Argo Floats |
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Detection of Coccolithophore Blooms With BioGeoChemical‐Argo Floats |
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Detection of Coccolithophore Blooms With BioGeoChemical‐Argo Floats |
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Detection of Coccolithophore Blooms With BioGeoChemical‐Argo Floats |
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detection of coccolithophore blooms with biogeochemical‐argo floats |
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