Distribution of Pb-210 and Po-210 in the arctic water column during the 2007 sea-ice minimum: Particle export in the ice-covered basins.

• Published in: Deep Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers
• Main Authors: Roca-Martí, Montserrat, Puigcorbé, Viena, Friedrich, Jana, Rutgers van der Loeff, Michiel, Rabe, Benjamin, Korhonen, Meri, Cámara Mor, Patricia, Garcia-Orellana, Jordi, Masqué, Pere
• Format: Report
• Language: unknown
• Published: Elsevier 2018
• Subjects: Particle export; Annual new primary production; Scavenging; 210Po/210Pb; Arctic Ocean; 2007 sea-ice minimum; Arctic; Korhonen; Makarov Basin; Roca; laptev; makarov basin; Nansen; Sea ice
• Online Access: https://hdl.handle.net/1912/23820

Author Posting. © The Authors, 2018. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here under a nonexclusive, irrevocable, paid-up, worldwide license granted to WHOI. It is made available for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Roca-Marti, M., Puigcorbe, V., Friedrich, J., van der Loeff, M. R., Rabe, B., Korhonen, M., Camara-Mor, P., Garcia-Orellana, J., & Masque, P. (2018). Distribution of pb-210 and po-210 in the arctic water column during the 2007 sea-ice minimum: Particle export in the ice-covered basins. Deep-Sea Research Part I-Oceanographic Research Papers, 142, 94-106, doi:10.1016/j.dsr.2018.09.011. 210Pb and 210Po are naturally occurring radionuclides that are commonly used as a proxy for particle and carbon export. In this study, the distribution of the 210Po/210Pb pair was investigated in the water column of the Barents, Kara and Laptev Seas and the Nansen, Amundsen and Makarov Basins in order to understand the particle dynamics in the Arctic Ocean during the 2007 sea-ice minimum (August-September). Minimum activities of total 210Pb and 210Po were found in the upper and lower haloclines (approx. 60-130 m), which are partly attributed to particle scavenging over the shelves, boundary current transport and subsequent advection of the water with low 210Pb and 210Po activities into the central Arctic. Widespread and substantial (>50%) deficits of 210Po with respect to 210Pb were detected from surface waters to 200 m on the shelves, but also in the basins. This was particularly important in the Makarov Basin where, despite very low chlorophyll-a levels, estimates of annual new primary production were three times higher than in the Eurasian Basin. In the Nansen, Amundsen and Makarov 32 Basins, estimates of annual new primary production correlated with the deficits of 210Po in the upper 200 m of the water column, suggesting that in situ production and subsequent export of biogenic material were the mechanisms that controlled the removal of 210Po in ...