Seasonal cycle of CO2 from the sea ice edge to island blooms in the Scotia Sea, Southern Ocean

• Published in: Marine Chemistry
• Main Authors: Jones, Elizabeth M., Bakker, Dorothee C. E., Venables, Hugh J., Hardman-Mountford, Nick J.
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: Scotia Sea; South Georgia Island; Southern Ocean; Weddell; Sea ice; ice covered waters
• Online Access: https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/55616/; https://ueaeprints.uea.ac.uk/id/eprint/55616/1/ejones_manuscript_final_full_authors_copy.pdf; https://doi.org/10.1016/j.marchem.2015.06.031

The Scotia Sea region contains some of the most productive waters of the Southern Ocean. It is also a dynamic region through the interaction of deep water masses with the atmosphere. We present a first seasonally-resolved time series of the fugacity of CO2 (fCO2) from spring 2006, summer 2008, autum...