Defining Southern Ocean fronts and their influence on biological and physical processes in a changing climate

CC Chapman, MA Lea, A Meyer, JB Sallée… - Nature Climate …, 2020 - nature.com
Abstract The Southern Ocean is a critical component of the global climate system and an
important ecoregion that contains a diverse range of interdependent flora and fauna. It also …

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 …

Manganese co-limitation of phytoplankton growth and major nutrient drawdown in the Southern Ocean

TJ Browning, EP Achterberg, A Engel… - Nature communications, 2021 - nature.com
Residual macronutrients in the surface Southern Ocean result from restricted biological
utilization, caused by low wintertime irradiance, cold temperatures, and insufficient …

The Southern Ocean mixed layer and its boundary fluxes: fine-scale observational progress and future research priorities

S Swart, MD du Plessis… - … of the Royal …, 2023 - royalsocietypublishing.org
Interactions between the upper ocean and air-ice-ocean fluxes in the Southern Ocean play a
critical role in global climate by impacting the overturning circulation and oceanic heat and …

A comparative assessment of the uncertainties of global surface ocean CO2 estimates using a machine-learning ensemble (CSIR-ML6 version 2019a) – have we hit …

L Gregor, AD Lebehot, S Kok… - Geoscientific Model …, 2019 - gmd.copernicus.org
Over the last decade, advanced statistical inference and machine learning have been used
to fill the gaps in sparse surface ocean CO2 measurements (Rödenbeck et al., 2015). The …

Phytoplankton phenology in the global ocean

MF Racault, C Le Quéré, E Buitenhuis… - Ecological …, 2012 - Elsevier
In recent years, phytoplankton phenology has been proposed as an indicator to monitor
systematically the state of the pelagic ecosystem and to detect changes triggered by …

A comparison of methods to determine phytoplankton bloom initiation

SR Brody, MS Lozier, JP Dunne - Journal of Geophysical …, 2013 - Wiley Online Library
Phytoplankton bloom phenology has important consequences for marine ecosystems and
fisheries. Recent studies have used remotely sensed ocean color data to calculate metrics …

Sea–air CO2 fluxes in the Southern Ocean for the period 1990–2009

A Lenton, B Tilbrook, RM Law, D Bakker… - …, 2013 - bg.copernicus.org
The Southern Ocean (44–75° S) plays a critical role in the global carbon cycle, yet remains
one of the most poorly sampled ocean regions. Different approaches have been used to …

Applying deep learning in the prediction of chlorophyll-a in the East China Sea

H Cen, J Jiang, G Han, X Lin, Y Liu, X Jia, Q Ji, B Li - Remote Sensing, 2022 - mdpi.com
The ocean chlorophyll-a (Chl-a) concentration is an important variable in the marine
environment, the abnormal distribution of which is closely related to the hazards of red tides …

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 …