Articles | Volume 12, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3513-2015
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-12-3513-2015
Research article
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09 Jun 2015
Research article |  | 09 Jun 2015

Carbon, oxygen and biological productivity in the Southern Ocean in and out the Kerguelen plume: CARIOCA drifter results

L. Merlivat, J. Boutin, and F. d'Ovidio

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One CARIOCA buoy deployed during the KEOPS2 expedition in Oct-Nov 2011 drifted eastward in the Kerguelen plume. Surface measurements of pCO2 and O2 were collected. Close to the polar front, the surface waters are a sink for CO2 and a source for O2, with mean fluxes equal to -8mmol CO2 m-2d-1 and +38mmol O2 m-2d-1. Outside an iron-enriched filament, the fluxes are in the opposite direction. NCP values of 60-140 mmol C m-2d-1 and stoichiometric ratios, O2/C, between 1.1 and 1.4 are computed.
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