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TI Relaxation of wind stress drives the abrupt onset of biological carbon uptake in the Kerguelen Bloom: a multisensor approach
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AF Pellichero, Violaine
   Boutin, Jacqueline
   Claustre, Hervé
   Merlivat, Liliane
   Sallée, Jean‐Baptiste
   Blain, Stéphane
AS 1:1;2:1;3:2;4:1;5:1;6:3;
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C1 Sorbonne Université, CNRS, IRD, MNHN, UMR 7159, Laboratoire d'Océanographie et du Climat: Expérimentations et Approches Numériques, LOCEAN‐IPSL F‐75005 Paris , France
   Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7093, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, France
   Sorbonne Université, CNRS, UMR 7621, Laboratoire d'Océanographie MICrobienne, LOMIC, France
C2 CNRS, FRANCE
   CNRS, FRANCE
   UNIV PARIS 06, FRANCE
IF 4.72
TC 12
UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00624/73572/72941.pdf
   https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00624/73572/72942.pdf
LA English
DT Article
CR MD 205 / SOCLIM
   OISO - OCÉAN INDIEN SERVICE D'OBSERVATION
   VT 153 / OISO-27
BO Marion Dufresne
DE ;onset of the phytoplankton bloom;mixing-layer depth;in situ high-resolution data;mixed-layer depth;air-sea heat flux;wind stress
AB We deployed sensors for physical and biogeochemical measurements on one Eulerian mooring and two Lagrangian biogeochemical Argo‐floats on the Kerguelen Plateau. High temporal and vertical resolution measurements revealed an abrupt shoaling of both the mixed‐layer depth and mixing‐layer depth. The sudden stratification was concomitant with the start of significant biological activity detected by chlorophyll‐a accumulation, oxygen oversaturation and dissolved inorganic carbon drawdown. The net community production computed in the mixing‐layer during the onset period of 9 days was 119±7 mmol m‐2 d‐1. While it is generally admitted that bloom initiation is mostly driven by the onset of positive heat fluxes, our results suggest this is not a sufficient condition. Here we report that the decrease in the depth over which wind mixes the upper layer drives the initiation of the bloom. These results suggest that future atmospheric changes in Southern Ocean could impact the phenology of the blooms. Plain Language Summary The region of the Kerguelen Plateau is well known as a naturally iron fertilized region and it supports a productive marine ecosystem. In the present study, we investigate the evolution of the biogeochemical and physical conditions during the 2016 phytoplankton bloom event near the Kerguelen Plateau. We use a unique combination of moored instruments and profiling floats in order to follow the phytoplankton evolution at vertical, spatial and temporal scales and to understand the main physical drivers supporting such an abrupt bloom initiation that occurs only over a 9‐days period. The large phytoplankton bloom develops during a major shallowing event bringing in few days the mixed‐layer depth from its typical winter value to its typical summer value. This abrupt stratification of the water column is driven by a decline of the wind stress. These results have important implications considering that the wind regimes are predicted to intensify in the future in the Southern Ocean. Key Points Phytoplankton onset is detected from in‐situ high resolution multisensors data gathered by one mooring and two Biogeochemical Argo floats The bloom starts approximately two months after the net heat flux becomes positive, during an abrupt shoaling event of the mixing‐layer The bloom starts only after a decrease in the depth over which winds actively mix the upper ocean leading to a decrease of the turbulence 
PY 2020
PD MAY
SO Geophysical Research Letters
SN 0094-8276
PU American Geophysical Union (AGU)
VL 47
IS 9
UT 000536639500040
DI 10.1029/2019GL085992
ID 73572
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