Physical drivers of biogeochemical variability in the Polar Front Meander
The Southern Ocean plays a vital role in global ocean circulation, and the Polar Front (PF) isone of its most important physical features. The PF meander south of Tasmania, around 153°E, 55°S, is a verydynamic region which spawns mesoscale eddies, and influences local biogeochemistry and sea-air int...
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ftunivtasmania:oai:eprints.utas.edu.au:46773 2023-05-15T18:25:36+02:00 Physical drivers of biogeochemical variability in the Polar Front Meander Yang, X Strutton, PG Cyriac, A Phillips, HE Pittman, NA Rodriguez Vives, C 2022 application/pdf https://eprints.utas.edu.au/46773/ https://eprints.utas.edu.au/46773/1/150660%20-%20Physical%20drivers%20of%20biogeochemical%20variability%20in%20the%20Polar%20Front.pdf en eng Wiley-Blackwell Publishing Inc. https://eprints.utas.edu.au/46773/1/150660%20-%20Physical%20drivers%20of%20biogeochemical%20variability%20in%20the%20Polar%20Front.pdf Yang, X, Strutton, PG orcid:0000-0002-2395-9471 , Cyriac, A orcid:0000-0001-6149-740X , Phillips, HE orcid:0000-0002-2941-7577 , Pittman, NA and Rodriguez Vives, C 2022 , 'Physical drivers of biogeochemical variability in the Polar Front Meander' , Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, vol. 127, no. 6 , pp. 1-19 , doi:10.1029/2021JC017863 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017863>. biogeochemical variability polar front climate Article PeerReviewed 2022 ftunivtasmania https://doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017863 2022-08-15T22:16:34Z The Southern Ocean plays a vital role in global ocean circulation, and the Polar Front (PF) isone of its most important physical features. The PF meander south of Tasmania, around 153°E, 55°S, is a verydynamic region which spawns mesoscale eddies, and influences local biogeochemistry and sea-air interaction.By using voyage and ancillary data, we investigated the unusually strong spring bloom in the vicinity of the PFmeander in 2018. We infer that the upwelling of deep water at the front and in eddies, brings macronutrientsand dissolved iron (dFe) to the surface. Chlorophyll concentration peaked at over 0.6 mg m −3, which isanomalously high for this area. With reduced iron limitation, the physiological characteristics of phytoplanktonin the northern, downstream part of the study area also changed. The photochemical efficiency was improvedand released this area from its usual high-nutrient low-chlorophyll (HNLC) status. This was mainly indicatedby the increase in the dawn Fv/Fm maximum (indictor of photochemical efficiency) from 0.2 to over 0.5.With the biomass increase and healthier community status, we observed consumption of surface dissolvedinorganic carbon and increased particulate organic carbon production to about 40 μmol L −1, forming a weaklocal carbon sink. Through the investigation of multiple years, a weak positive correlation between mixed layerdepth shoaling and phytoplankton growth was found, but there was significant interannual variability in thisrelationship, likely caused by variable eddy conditions and dFe delivery. Article in Journal/Newspaper Southern Ocean University of Tasmania: UTas ePrints Southern Ocean Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans 127 6 |
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The Southern Ocean plays a vital role in global ocean circulation, and the Polar Front (PF) isone of its most important physical features. The PF meander south of Tasmania, around 153°E, 55°S, is a verydynamic region which spawns mesoscale eddies, and influences local biogeochemistry and sea-air interaction.By using voyage and ancillary data, we investigated the unusually strong spring bloom in the vicinity of the PFmeander in 2018. We infer that the upwelling of deep water at the front and in eddies, brings macronutrientsand dissolved iron (dFe) to the surface. Chlorophyll concentration peaked at over 0.6 mg m −3, which isanomalously high for this area. With reduced iron limitation, the physiological characteristics of phytoplanktonin the northern, downstream part of the study area also changed. The photochemical efficiency was improvedand released this area from its usual high-nutrient low-chlorophyll (HNLC) status. This was mainly indicatedby the increase in the dawn Fv/Fm maximum (indictor of photochemical efficiency) from 0.2 to over 0.5.With the biomass increase and healthier community status, we observed consumption of surface dissolvedinorganic carbon and increased particulate organic carbon production to about 40 μmol L −1, forming a weaklocal carbon sink. Through the investigation of multiple years, a weak positive correlation between mixed layerdepth shoaling and phytoplankton growth was found, but there was significant interannual variability in thisrelationship, likely caused by variable eddy conditions and dFe delivery. |
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Physical drivers of biogeochemical variability in the Polar Front Meander |
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Physical drivers of biogeochemical variability in the Polar Front Meander |
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https://eprints.utas.edu.au/46773/1/150660%20-%20Physical%20drivers%20of%20biogeochemical%20variability%20in%20the%20Polar%20Front.pdf Yang, X, Strutton, PG orcid:0000-0002-2395-9471 , Cyriac, A orcid:0000-0001-6149-740X , Phillips, HE orcid:0000-0002-2941-7577 , Pittman, NA and Rodriguez Vives, C 2022 , 'Physical drivers of biogeochemical variability in the Polar Front Meander' , Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, vol. 127, no. 6 , pp. 1-19 , doi:10.1029/2021JC017863 <http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/2021JC017863>. |
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