Zooplankton grazing is the largest source of uncertainty for marine carbon cycling in CMIP6 models

T Rohr, AJ Richardson, A Lenton… - … Earth & Environment, 2023 - nature.com
The current generation of Earth system models used by the United Nations to project future
climate scenarios (CMIP6) relies heavily on marine biogeochemical models to track the fate …

Asymmetry in the rate of warming and the phenology of seasonal blooms in the Northeast US Shelf Ecosystem

KD Friedland, NR Record, DE Pendleton… - ICES Journal of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Predicting the impact of marine ecosystem warming on the timing and magnitude of
phytoplankton production is challenging. For example, warming can advance the …

Sub‐seasonal forcing drives year‐to‐year variations of Southern Ocean primary productivity

CJ Prend, MG Keerthi, M Lévy… - Global …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Primary productivity in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in global biogeochemical cycles.
While much focus has been placed on phytoplankton production seasonality, non‐seasonal …

When mixed layers are not mixed. Storm‐driven mixing and bio‐optical vertical gradients in mixed layers of the Southern Ocean

MM Carranza, ST Gille, PJS Franks… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Mixed layers are defined to have homogeneous density, temperature, and salinity. However,
bio‐optical profiles may not always be fully homogenized within the mixed layer. The relative …

A new ocean state after nuclear war

CS Harrison, T Rohr, A DuVivier, EA Maroon… - AGU …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Nuclear war would produce dire global consequences for humans and our environment. We
simulated climate impacts of US‐Russia and India‐Pakistan nuclear wars in an Earth …

Remote sensing for marine management

M Fingas - World seas: An environmental evaluation, 2019 - Elsevier
Remote sensing has become an important tool for the management of the marine
environment. Currently, researchers are able to map several important facets of the marine …

Biogeochemical‐argo floats reveal stark latitudinal gradient in the Southern Ocean deep carbon flux driven by phytoplankton community composition

L Terrats, H Claustre, N Briggs, A Poteau… - Global …, 2023 - Wiley Online Library
The gravitational sinking of particles in the mesopelagic layer (∼ 200–1,000 m) transfers to
the deep ocean a part of atmospheric carbon fixed by phytoplankton. This process, called …

Southern ocean mixed‐layer seasonal and interannual variations from combined satellite and in situ data

B Buongiorno Nardelli, S Guinehut… - Journal of …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
The depth of the upper ocean mixed layer provides fundamental information on the amount
of seawater that directly interacts with the atmosphere. Its space‐time variability modulates …

Mesoscale effects on carbon export: A global perspective

CS Harrison, MC Long, NS Lovenduski… - Global …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Carbon export from the surface to the deep ocean is a primary control on global carbon
budgets and is mediated by plankton that are sensitive to physical forcing. Earth system …

Biogeochemical‐Argo floats show that chlorophyll increases before carbon in the high‐latitude Southern Ocean spring bloom

CR Vives, C Schallenberg, PG Strutton… - Limnology and …, 2024 - Wiley Online Library
Abstract In the Southern Ocean, phytoplankton blooms are an annually recurring prominent
feature that play a significant role in ocean CO2 uptake. Understanding the timing of the …