Monitoring ocean biogeochemistry with autonomous platforms

F Chai, KS Johnson, H Claustre, X Xing… - Nature Reviews Earth & …, 2020 - nature.com
Human activities have altered the state of the ocean, leading to warming, acidification and
deoxygenation. These changes impact ocean biogeochemistry and influence ecosystem …

OceanGliders: a component of the integrated GOOS

P Testor, B De Young, DL Rudnick, S Glenn… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The OceanGliders program started in 2016 to support active coordination and enhancement
of global glider activity. OceanGliders contributes to the international efforts of the Global …

Widespread changes in Southern Ocean phytoplankton blooms linked to climate drivers

SJ Thomalla, SA Nicholson, TJ Ryan-Keogh… - Nature Climate …, 2023 - nature.com
Climate change is expected to elicit widespread alterations to nutrient and light supply,
which interact to influence phytoplankton growth and their seasonal cycles. Using 25 years …

Recommendations for obtaining unbiased chlorophyll estimates from in situ chlorophyll fluorometers: A global analysis of WET Labs ECO sensors

C Roesler, J Uitz, H Claustre, E Boss… - Limnology and …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Chlorophyll fluorometers provide the largest in situ global data set for estimating
phytoplankton biomass because of their ease of use, size, power consumption, and …

[HTML][HTML] Open-ocean submesoscale motions: A full seasonal cycle of mixed layer instabilities from gliders

AF Thompson, A Lazar, C Buckingham… - Journal of Physical …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Open-Ocean Submesoscale Motions: A Full Seasonal Cycle of Mixed Layer Instabilities
from Gliders in: Journal of Physical Oceanography Volume 46 Issue 4 (2016) Jump to …

Multidecadal trend of increasing iron stress in Southern Ocean phytoplankton

TJ Ryan-Keogh, SJ Thomalla, PMS Monteiro… - Science, 2023 - science.org
Southern Ocean primary productivity is principally controlled by adjustments in light and iron
limitation, but the spatial and temporal determinants of iron availability, accessibility, and …

Delivering sustained, coordinated, and integrated observations of the Southern Ocean for global impact

L Newman, P Heil, R Trebilco, K Katsumata… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Southern Ocean is disproportionately important in its effect on the Earth system,
impacting climatic, biogeochemical, and ecological systems, which makes recent observed …

Sub‐seasonal forcing drives year‐to‐year variations of southern ocean primary productivity

CJ Prend, MG Keerthi, M Lévy… - Global …, 2022 - Wiley Online Library
Primary productivity in the Southern Ocean plays a key role in global biogeochemical cycles.
While much focus has been placed on phytoplankton production seasonality, non‐seasonal …

Southern Ocean wind‐driven entrainment enhances satellite chlorophyll‐a through the summer

MM Carranza, ST Gille - Journal of Geophysical Research …, 2015 - Wiley Online Library
Despite being the largest High Nitrate Low Chlorophyll (HNLC) region, the Southern Ocean
sustains phytoplankton blooms through the summer, when presumably there is sufficient …

Annual variations in phytoplankton biomass driven by small-scale physical processes

MG Keerthi, CJ Prend, O Aumont, M Lévy - Nature Geoscience, 2022 - nature.com
Phytoplankton biomass exhibits substantial year-to-year changes, and understanding these
changes is crucial to fisheries management and projecting future climate. These annual …