Defining Southern Ocean fronts and their influence on biological and physical processes in a changing climate

CC Chapman, MA Lea, A Meyer, JB Sallée… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Ocean is a critical component of the global climate system and an
important ecoregion that contains a diverse range of interdependent flora and fauna. It also …

The role of biota in the Southern Ocean carbon cycle

PW Boyd, KR Arrigo, M Ardyna, S Halfter… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2024 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Ocean, although relatively understudied owing to its harsh
environment and geographical isolation, has been shown to contribute substantially to …

Widespread changes in Southern Ocean phytoplankton blooms linked to climate drivers

SJ Thomalla, SA Nicholson, TJ Ryan-Keogh… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change is expected to elicit widespread alterations to nutrient and light supply,
which interact to influence phytoplankton growth and their seasonal cycles. Using 25 years …

Manganese co-limitation of phytoplankton growth and major nutrient drawdown in the Southern Ocean

TJ Browning, EP Achterberg, A Engel… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Residual macronutrients in the surface Southern Ocean result from restricted biological
utilization, caused by low wintertime irradiance, cold temperatures, and insufficient …

A comparative assessment of the uncertainties of global surface ocean CO2 estimates using a machine-learning ensemble (CSIR-ML6 version 2019a) – have we hit …

L Gregor, AD Lebehot, S Kok… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
Over the last decade, advanced statistical inference and machine learning have been used
to fill the gaps in sparse surface ocean CO2 measurements (Rödenbeck et al., 2015). The …

Phytoplankton phenology in the global ocean

MF Racault, C Le Quéré, E Buitenhuis… - Ecological …, 2012 - Elsevier
In recent years, phytoplankton phenology has been proposed as an indicator to monitor
systematically the state of the pelagic ecosystem and to detect changes triggered by …

Annual variations in phytoplankton biomass driven by small-scale physical processes

MG Keerthi, CJ Prend, O Aumont, M Lévy - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Phytoplankton biomass exhibits substantial year-to-year changes, and understanding these
changes is crucial to fisheries management and projecting future climate. These annual …

[HTML][HTML] Applying deep learning in the prediction of chlorophyll-a in the East China Sea

H Cen, J Jiang, G Han, X Lin, Y Liu, X Jia, Q Ji, B Li - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The ocean chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentration is an important variable in the marine
environment, the abnormal distribution of which is closely related to the hazards of red tides …

A comparison of methods to determine phytoplankton bloom initiation

SR Brody, MS Lozier, JP Dunne - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton bloom phenology has important consequences for marine ecosystems and
fisheries. Recent studies have used remotely sensed ocean color data to calculate metrics …

Sea–air CO2 fluxes in the Southern Ocean for the period 1990–2009

A Lenton, B Tilbrook, RM Law, D Bakker… - …, 2013 - bg.copernicus.org
The Southern Ocean (44–75° S) plays a critical role in the global carbon cycle, yet remains
one of the most poorly sampled ocean regions. Different approaches have been used to …