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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ED: Reconsider after major revisions (18 Feb 2016) by Emilio Marañón
AR by Alexandre Mignot on behalf of the Authors (25 Mar 2016)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (29 Mar 2016) by Emilio Marañón
RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (11 Apr 2016)
ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (20 Apr 2016) by Emilio Marañón
AR by Alexandre Mignot on behalf of the Authors (04 May 2016)  Author's response    Manuscript
ED: Publish as is (09 May 2016) by Emilio Marañón
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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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