Age characteristics of a shelf-break eddy in the western Arctic and implications for shelf-basin exchange
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ftwhoas:oai:darchive.mblwhoilibrary.org:1912/3613 2023-05-15T14:53:38+02:00 Age characteristics of a shelf-break eddy in the western Arctic and implications for shelf-basin exchange Kadko, David Pickart, Robert S. Mathis, Jeremy T. 2008-02-22 application/pdf https://hdl.handle.net/1912/3613 en_US eng American Geophysical Union https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JC004429 Journal of Geophysical Research 113 (2008): C02018 https://hdl.handle.net/1912/3613 doi:10.1029/2007JC004429 Journal of Geophysical Research 113 (2008): C02018 doi:10.1029/2007JC004429 Arctic Eddy Radium Article 2008 ftwhoas https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JC004429 2022-05-28T22:58:02Z Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2008. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research 113 (2008): C02018, doi:10.1029/2007JC004429. Radioisotope evaluation of a cold-core, anticyclonic eddy surveyed in September 2004 on the Chukchi Sea continental slope was used to determine its age since formation over the shelf environment. Because the eddy can be shown to have been generated near the shelf break, initial conditions for several age-dependent tracers could be relatively well constrained. A combination of 228Ra/226Ra, excess 224Ra, and 228Th/228Ra suggested an age on the order of months. This age is consistent with the presence of elevated concentrations of nutrients, organic carbon, suspended particles, and shelf-derived neritic zooplankton within the eddy compared to ambient offshore water in the Canada Basin but comparable to values measured in the Chukchi shelf and shelf-break environment. Hence this feature, at the edge of the deep basin, was poised to deliver biogeochemically significant shelf material to the central Arctic Ocean. This work was supported by National Science Foundation Polar Programs grants OPP-662690 and OPP-66040N to the University of Miami (DK), and Office of Naval Research grant N00014-02-1-0317 (RP). Article in Journal/Newspaper Arctic Arctic Ocean canada basin Central Arctic Chukchi Chukchi Sea Zooplankton Woods Hole Scientific Community: WHOAS (Woods Hole Open Access Server) Arctic Arctic Ocean Canada Chukchi Sea Chukchi Shelf ENVELOPE(-169.167,-169.167,70.550,70.550) Journal of Geophysical Research 113 C2 |
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Author Posting. © American Geophysical Union, 2008. This article is posted here by permission of American Geophysical Union for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Journal of Geophysical Research 113 (2008): C02018, doi:10.1029/2007JC004429. Radioisotope evaluation of a cold-core, anticyclonic eddy surveyed in September 2004 on the Chukchi Sea continental slope was used to determine its age since formation over the shelf environment. Because the eddy can be shown to have been generated near the shelf break, initial conditions for several age-dependent tracers could be relatively well constrained. A combination of 228Ra/226Ra, excess 224Ra, and 228Th/228Ra suggested an age on the order of months. This age is consistent with the presence of elevated concentrations of nutrients, organic carbon, suspended particles, and shelf-derived neritic zooplankton within the eddy compared to ambient offshore water in the Canada Basin but comparable to values measured in the Chukchi shelf and shelf-break environment. Hence this feature, at the edge of the deep basin, was poised to deliver biogeochemically significant shelf material to the central Arctic Ocean. This work was supported by National Science Foundation Polar Programs grants OPP-662690 and OPP-66040N to the University of Miami (DK), and Office of Naval Research grant N00014-02-1-0317 (RP). |
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Age characteristics of a shelf-break eddy in the western Arctic and implications for shelf-basin exchange |
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Age characteristics of a shelf-break eddy in the western Arctic and implications for shelf-basin exchange |
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Age characteristics of a shelf-break eddy in the western Arctic and implications for shelf-basin exchange |
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Age characteristics of a shelf-break eddy in the western Arctic and implications for shelf-basin exchange |
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Age characteristics of a shelf-break eddy in the western Arctic and implications for shelf-basin exchange |
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age characteristics of a shelf-break eddy in the western arctic and implications for shelf-basin exchange |
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