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Jafar-sidik, Madihah; Gohin, Francis; Bowers, David; Howarth, John; Hull, Tom. |
From a data set of observations of Suspended Particulate Matter (SPM) concentration, Turbidity in Formazin Turbity Unit (FTU) and fluorescence-derived chlorophyll-a at a mooring station in Liverpool Bay, in the Irish Sea, we investigate the seasonal variation of the SPM:Turbidity ratio. This ratio changes from a value of around 1 in winter (minimum in January–February) to 2 in summer (maximum in May–June). This seasonal change can be understood in terms of the cycle of turbulence and of the phytoplankton population that affects the nature, shape and size of the particles responsible for the Turbidity. The data suggest a direct effect of phytoplankton on the SPM:Turbidity ratio during the spring bloom occurring in April and May and a delayed effect, likely... |
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Palavras-chave: Turbidity; Suspended matter; MODIS; Irish Sea. |
Ano: 2017 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00383/49473/49960.pdf |
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Kitidis, Vassilis; Shutler, Jamie D.; Ashton, Ian; Warren, Mark; Brown, Ian; Findlay, Helen; Hartman, Sue E.; Sanders, Richard; Humphreys, Matthew; Kivimae, Caroline; Greenwood, Naomi; Hull, Tom; Pearce, David; Mcgrath, Triona; Stewart, Brian M.; Walsham, Pamela; Mcgovern, Evin; Bozec, Yann; Gac, Jean-philippe; Van Heuven, Steven M. A. C.; Hoppema, Mario; Schuster, Ute; Johannessen, Truls; Omar, Abdirahman; Lauvset, Siv K.; Skjelvan, Ingunn; Olsen, Are; Steinhoff, Tobias; Koertzinger, Arne; Becker, Meike; Lefevre, Nathalie; Diverres, Denis; Gkritzalis, Thanos; Cattrijsse, Andre; Petersen, Wilhelm; Voynova, Yoana G.; Chapron, Bertrand; Grouazel, Antoine; Land, Peter E.; Sharples, Jonathan; Nightingale, Philip D.. |
Shelf seas play an important role in the global carbon cycle, absorbing atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2) and exporting carbon (C) to the open ocean and sediments. The magnitude of these processes is poorly constrained, because observations are typically interpolated over multiple years. Here, we used 298500 observations of CO2 fugacity (fCO(2)) from a single year (2015), to estimate the net influx of atmospheric CO2 as 26.2 +/- 4.7 Tg C yr(-1) over the open NW European shelf. CO2 influx from the atmosphere was dominated by influx during winter as a consequence of high winds, despite a smaller, thermally-driven, air-sea fCO(2) gradient compared to the larger, biologically-driven summer gradient. In order to understand this climate regulation service, we... |
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Ano: 2019 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00607/71869/70566.pdf |
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