Articles | Volume 13, issue 11
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3485-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3485-2016
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15 Jun 2016
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Spring bloom onset in the Nordic Seas

Alexandre Mignot, Raffaele Ferrari, and Kjell Arne Mork

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We investigated the bloom onset in the Nordic Seas using 6 bio-optical floats. We found that the float data are consistent with two possible scenarios for the onset of blooms in the Nordic Seas. The Nordic Seas blooms could have started either when the light became sufficiently abundant that the division rates exceeded the loss rates, or when the photoperiod, the number of daily light hours experienced by phytoplankton, exceeded a critical value.
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