(Table 2) Comparison of annual mass fluxes measured with shallower and deeper sediment traps off Cape Blanc (CB)
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| author | Fischer, Gerhard Karakas, Gökay Blaas, M Ratmeyer, Volker Nowald, Nicolas Schlitzer, Reiner Helmke, Peer Davenport, Robert Donner, Barbara Neuer, Susanne Wefer, Gerold |
| author_facet | Fischer, Gerhard Karakas, Gökay Blaas, M Ratmeyer, Volker Nowald, Nicolas Schlitzer, Reiner Helmke, Peer Davenport, Robert Donner, Barbara Neuer, Susanne Wefer, Gerold |
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| contents | The ocean off NW Africa is the second most important coastal upwelling system with a total annual primary production of 0.33 Gt of carbon per year (Carr in Deep Sea Res II 49:59-80, 2002). Deep ocean organic carbon fluxes measured by sediment traps are also fairly high despite low biogenic opal fluxes. Due to a low supply of dissolved silicate from subsurface waters, the ocean off NW Africa is characterized by predominantly carbonate-secreting primary producers, i.e. coccolithophorids. These algae which are key primary producers since millions of years are found in organic- and chlorophyll-rich zooplankton fecal pellets, which sink rapidly through the water column within a few days. Particle flux studies in the Mauretanian upwelling area (Cape Blanc) confirm the hypothesis of Armstrong et al. (Deep Sea Res II 49:219-236, 2002) who proposed that ballast availability, e.g. of carbonate particles, is essential to predict deep ocean organic carbon fluxes. The role of dust as ballast mineral for organic carbon, however, must be also taken into consideration in the coastal settings off NW Africa. There, high settling rates of larger particles approach 400 m day**-1, which may be due to a particular composition of mineral ballast. An assessment of particle settling rates from opal-production systems in the Southern Ocean of the Atlantic Sector, in contrast, provides lower values, consistent with the assumptions of Francois et al. (Global Biogeochem Cycles 16(4):1087, 2002). Satellite chlorophyll distributions, particle distributions and fluxes in the water column off NW Africa as well as modelling studies suggest a significant lateral flux component and export of particles from coastal shelf waters into the open ocean. These transport processes have implications for paleo-reconstructions from sediment cores retrieved at continental margin settings. |
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| spellingShingle | (Table 2) Comparison of annual mass fluxes measured with shallower and deeper sediment traps off Cape Blanc (CB) Fischer, Gerhard Karakas, Gökay Blaas, M Ratmeyer, Volker Nowald, Nicolas Schlitzer, Reiner Helmke, Peer Davenport, Robert Donner, Barbara Neuer, Susanne Wefer, Gerold Calcium carbonate, flux; Calculated, see reference(s); Cape Blanc; Carbon, organic, total, flux; CB13; CB13_trap; CB3_trap; CB4_trap; Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; Comment; DEPTH, water; Event label; Lithogenic, flux; M12/1; M16/2; MARUM; Meteor (1986); Opal, flux; Sample code/label; Total, flux per year; Trap; TRAP The ocean off NW Africa is the second most important coastal upwelling system with a total annual primary production of 0.33 Gt of carbon per year (Carr in Deep Sea Res II 49:59-80, 2002). Deep ocean organic carbon fluxes measured by sediment traps are also fairly high despite low biogenic opal fluxes. Due to a low supply of dissolved silicate from subsurface waters, the ocean off NW Africa is characterized by predominantly carbonate-secreting primary producers, i.e. coccolithophorids. These algae which are key primary producers since millions of years are found in organic- and chlorophyll-rich zooplankton fecal pellets, which sink rapidly through the water column within a few days. Particle flux studies in the Mauretanian upwelling area (Cape Blanc) confirm the hypothesis of Armstrong et al. (Deep Sea Res II 49:219-236, 2002) who proposed that ballast availability, e.g. of carbonate particles, is essential to predict deep ocean organic carbon fluxes. The role of dust as ballast mineral for organic carbon, however, must be also taken into consideration in the coastal settings off NW Africa. There, high settling rates of larger particles approach 400 m day**-1, which may be due to a particular composition of mineral ballast. An assessment of particle settling rates from opal-production systems in the Southern Ocean of the Atlantic Sector, in contrast, provides lower values, consistent with the assumptions of Francois et al. (Global Biogeochem Cycles 16(4):1087, 2002). Satellite chlorophyll distributions, particle distributions and fluxes in the water column off NW Africa as well as modelling studies suggest a significant lateral flux component and export of particles from coastal shelf waters into the open ocean. These transport processes have implications for paleo-reconstructions from sediment cores retrieved at continental margin settings. |
| title | (Table 2) Comparison of annual mass fluxes measured with shallower and deeper sediment traps off Cape Blanc (CB) |
| topic | Calcium carbonate, flux; Calculated, see reference(s); Cape Blanc; Carbon, organic, total, flux; CB13; CB13_trap; CB3_trap; CB4_trap; Center for Marine Environmental Sciences; Comment; DEPTH, water; Event label; Lithogenic, flux; M12/1; M16/2; MARUM; Meteor (1986); Opal, flux; Sample code/label; Total, flux per year; Trap; TRAP |
| url | https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.760878 |