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Dissolved inorganic carbon dynamics and air-sea carbon dioxide fluxes during coccolithophorid blooms in the Northeast European continental margin (northern Bay of Biscay)
Suykens, Kim; Delille, Bruno; Chou, Lei et al.
2010EGU General Assembly
 

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Abstract :
[en] We present a data-set of dissolved inorganic carbon (DIC) obtained during three cruises in the northern Bay of Biscay carried out in June 2006, May 2007, and May 2008. During these cruises, blooms of coccolithophores occurred, as indicated by patches of high reflectance on remote sensing images, phytoplankton pigment signatures, and microscopic examinations. Total alkalinity (TA) showed a non-conservative behaviour as a function of salinity due to the cumulated effect of net community calcification (NCC) during bloom development on seawater carbonate chemistry. The cumulated impact of NCC and net community production (NCP) on DIC and the partial pressure of CO2 (pCO2) were evaluated. The decrease of DIC (and increase of pCO2) due to NCC was overwhelmingly lower than the decrease of DIC (and decrease of pCO2) due to NCP (NCC:NCP « 1). During the cruises, the northern Bay of Biscay acted as a sink of atmospheric CO2 (on average -9.7 mmol C m-2 d-1 for the 3 cruises). The overall effect of NCC in decreasing the CO2 sink during the cruises was low (on average 12% of total air-sea CO2 flux). If this is a general feature in naturally occurring phytoplankton blooms in the northern North Atlantic Ocean (where coccolithophorid blooms are the most intense and recurrent), and in the global ocean, then the potential feed-back on increasing atmospheric CO2 of the projected decrease of pelagic calcification due to thermodynamic CO2 “production” from calcification is probably minor compared to feed-backs related to changes of NCP.
Disciplines :
Aquatic sciences & oceanology
Environmental sciences & ecology
Author, co-author :
Suykens, Kim;  Unité d’Océanographie Chimique, Université de Liège, B-4000 Liège, Belgium
Delille, Bruno  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Océanographie chimique
Chou, Lei;  Laboratoire d’Océanographie Chimique et Géochimie des Eaux, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
De Bodt, Caroline;  Laboratoire d’Océanographie Chimique et Géochimie des Eaux, Faculté des Sciences, Université Libre de Bruxelles, B-1050 Brussels, Belgium
Harlay, Jérôme ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Océanographie chimique
Borges, Alberto  ;  Université de Liège - ULiège > Département d'astrophys., géophysique et océanographie (AGO) > Océanographie chimique
Language :
English
Title :
Dissolved inorganic carbon dynamics and air-sea carbon dioxide fluxes during coccolithophorid blooms in the Northeast European continental margin (northern Bay of Biscay)
Publication date :
02 May 2010
Event name :
EGU General Assembly
Event organizer :
http://www.egu.eu/
Event place :
Vienna, Austria
Event date :
2-7 May 2010
Audience :
International
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