The Southern Ocean carbon and climate observations and modeling (SOCCOM) project: A review

JL Sarmiento, KS Johnson, LA Arteaga… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Abstract The Southern Ocean serves as the primary gateway through which the
intermediate, deep, and bottom waters of the ocean interact with the surface ocean (and thus …

Southern Ocean phytoplankton dynamics and carbon export: insights from a seasonal cycle approach

SJ Thomalla, M Du Plessis… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Quantifying the strength and efficiency of the Southern Ocean biological carbon pump (BCP)
and its response to predicted changes in the Earth's climate is fundamental to our ability to …

Phytoplankton spring bloom inhibited by marine heatwaves in the North‐Western Mediterranean Sea

M Li, E Organelli, F Serva, M Bellacicco… - Geophysical …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) represent anomalously warm temperature conditions of
seawater that may affect marine life and ocean biogeochemistry. Under such conditions …

Sea‐ice impacts inter‐annual variability of phytoplankton bloom characteristics and carbon export in the Weddell Sea

IS Giddy, SA Nicholson, BY Queste… - Geophysical …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract The Antarctic Marginal Ice Zone (MIZ) accounts for 15% of the Southern Ocean's
primary production (PP), but limited data has hindered understanding of its variability and …

Climate variability shifts the vertical structure of phytoplankton in the Sargasso Sea

JJ Viljoen, X Sun, RJW Brewin - Nature Climate Change, 2024 - nature.com
Marine phytoplankton are essential to ocean biogeochemical cycles. However, our
understanding of changes in phytoplankton rely largely on satellite data, which can only …

Biological production of distinct carbon pools drives particle export efficiency in the Southern Ocean

Y Huang, AJ Fassbender - Geophysical Research Letters, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
We use observations from the Southern Ocean (SO) biogeochemical profiling float array to
quantify the meridional pattern of particle export efficiency (PEeff) during the austral …

[HTML][HTML] Reviews and syntheses: expanding the global coverage of gross primary production and net community production measurements using Biogeochemical …

RW Izett, K Fennel, AC Stoer, DP Nicholson - Biogeosciences, 2024 - bg.copernicus.org
This paper provides an overview and demonstration of emerging float-based methods for
quantifying gross primary production (GPP) and net community production (NCP) using …

Seasonal biases in fluorescence-estimated chlorophyll-a derived from biogeochemical profiling floats

JS Long, Y Takeshita, JN Plant, N Buzby… - … Earth & Environment, 2024 - nature.com
Marine phytoplankton biomass and chlorophyll-a concentration are often estimated from
pigment fluorescence measurements, which have become routine despite known variability …

Subsurface phytoplankton responses to ocean eddies can run counter to satellite-based inference from surface properties in subtropical gyres

Q He, DJ McGillicuddy Jr, X **ng, S Cai, W Zhan… - Progress in …, 2023 - Elsevier
Phytoplankton contribute approximately half of the Earth's primary production, playing a
crucial role in marine ecosystem functioning and global carbon cycling. However, our …

Evaluation of satellite-derived size-fractionated phytoplankton primary production in the south China sea

L Deng, J Zhao, X Zeng, W Cao - IEEE Transactions on …, 2023 - ieeexplore.ieee.org
Spaceborne observations of primary production (PP) are essential for understanding the
role of phytoplankton in the biogeochemical cycles on a global or regional scale. In this …