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Modeling the nitrogen fluxes in the Black Sea using a 3D coupled hydrodynamical-biogeochemical model: transport versus biogeochemical processes, exchanges across the shelf break and comparison of the shelf and deep sea ecodynamics
Grégoire, Marilaure; Beckers, Jean-Marie
2004In Biogeosciences, 1 (1), p. 33-61
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Abstract :
[en] A 6-compartment biogeochemical model of nitrogen cycling and plankton productivity has been coupled with a 3D general circulation model in an enclosed environment (the Black Sea) so as to quantify and compare, on a seasonal and annual scale, the typical internal biogeochemical functioning of the shelf and of the deep sea as well as to estimate the nitrogen and water exchanges at the shelf break. Model results indicate that the annual nitrogen net export to the deep sea roughly corresponds to the annual load of nitrogen discharged by the rivers on the shelf. The model estimated vertically integrated gross annual primary production is 130 g C m(-2) yr(-1) for the whole basin, 220 g C m(-2) yr(-1) for the shelf and 40 g C m(-2) yr(-1) for the central basin. In agreement with sediment trap observations, model results indicate a rapid and efficient recycling of particulate organic matter in the sub-oxic portion of the water column (60-80 m) of the open sea. More than 95% of the PON produced in the euphotic layer is recycled in the upper 100 m of the water column, 87% in the upper 80 m and 67% in the euphotic layer. The model estimates the annual export of POC towards the anoxic layer to 4 10(10) mol yr(-1). This POC is definitely lost for the system and represents 2% of the annual primary production of the open sea.
Research center :
Centre Interfacultaire de Recherches en Océanologie - MARE - GHER
Disciplines :
Physical, chemical, mathematical & earth Sciences: Multidisciplinary, general & others
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Grégoire, Marilaure  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département des sciences et gestion de l'environnement > Océanologie
Beckers, Jean-Marie  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys.
Language :
English
Title :
Modeling the nitrogen fluxes in the Black Sea using a 3D coupled hydrodynamical-biogeochemical model: transport versus biogeochemical processes, exchanges across the shelf break and comparison of the shelf and deep sea ecodynamics
Publication date :
2004
Journal title :
Biogeosciences
ISSN :
1726-4170
eISSN :
1726-4189
Publisher :
European Geosciences Union, Katlenburg-Lindau, Germany
Volume :
1
Issue :
1
Pages :
33-61
Peer reviewed :
Peer Reviewed verified by ORBi
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