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A new database to explore the findings from large-scale ocean iron enrichment experiments
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Boyd, PW and Bakker, DCE and Chandler, C, A new database to explore the findings from large-scale ocean iron enrichment experiments, Oceanography, 25, (4) pp. 64-71. ISSN 1042-8275 (2012) [Refereed Article]
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Copyright 2012 Oceanography Society
DOI: doi:10.5670/oceanog.2012.104.
Abstract
Some of the largest scientific manipulation experiments conducted
on our planet have enriched broad swaths of the surface ocean with iron. Surface
ocean signatures of these iron enrichment experiments have covered areas up to
> 1,000 km2 and have been conspicuous from space. Twelve of these multidisciplinary
studies have been conducted since the early 1990s in three specific ocean regions—
the Southern Ocean, and equatorial and sub-Arctic areas of the Pacific Ocean—
where plant nutrients are perennially high (termed high nutrient low chlorophyll,
or HNLC). In addition, a combined phosphorus and iron enrichment experiment
was conducted in the oligotrophic North Atlantic Ocean. Together, these studies
represent a unique set of physical, chemical, optical, biological, and ecological data.
The richness of these data sets is captured in an open-access relational database at
the Biological and Chemical Oceanography Data Management Office (BCO_DMO;
http://osprey.bco-dmo.org/program.cfm?flag=viewp&id=10&sortby=program). It
is a product of Working Group 131 (The Legacy of in situ Iron Enrichment: Data
Compilation and Modeling; http://www.scor-int.org/Working_Groups/wg131.htm)
of the Scientific Committee on Oceanic Research. The purpose of this article is to
make the wider community aware of this resource. It also presents the merits and
provides examples of the utility of this database for exploring emerging topics in
oceanography, such as the links between ecosystem processes and biogeochemical
cycles; the feasibility and many side effects of oceanic geoengineering; and how
understanding the coupling among physical, chemical, and biological processes at the
mesoscale can inform the emerging field of submesoscale biogeochemistry.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Research Division: | Biological Sciences |
Research Group: | Ecology |
Research Field: | Marine and estuarine ecology (incl. marine ichthyology) |
Objective Division: | Environmental Policy, Climate Change and Natural Hazards |
Objective Group: | Adaptation to climate change |
Objective Field: | Climate change adaptation measures (excl. ecosystem) |
UTAS Author: | Boyd, PW (Professor Philip Boyd) |
ID Code: | 95544 |
Year Published: | 2012 |
Web of Science® Times Cited: | 9 |
Deposited By: | IMAS Research and Education Centre |
Deposited On: | 2014-10-03 |
Last Modified: | 2018-03-28 |
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