The significance of nitrogen regeneration for new production within a  filament of the Mauritanian upwelling system

Clark, Darren R.; Widdicombe, Claire E.; Rees, Andrew P.; Woodward, E. Malcolm S.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2873-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2873-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2873-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

Research article

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18 May 2016

Research article |

| 18 May 2016

The significance of nitrogen regeneration for new production within a filament of the Mauritanian upwelling system

Darren R. Clark, Claire E. Widdicombe, Andrew P. Rees, and E. Malcolm S. Woodward

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Final revised paper (published on 18 May 2016)
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RC C8016: 'Comments manuscript bg-2015-547', Anonymous Referee #1, 27 Nov 2015
- AC C9253: 'Response to review 1', Darren Clark, 19 Jan 2016
RC C9318: 'Review of ms# bg-2015-547', Anonymous Referee #2, 20 Jan 2016
- AC C9650: 'Response to review#2', Darren Clark, 09 Feb 2016

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AR: Author's response | RR: Referee report | ED: Editor decision

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (20 Feb 2016) by Gerhard Herndl

AR by Darren Clark on behalf of the Authors (05 Apr 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (12 Apr 2016) by Gerhard Herndl

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (25 Apr 2016)

ED: Publish subject to technical corrections (03 May 2016) by Gerhard Herndl

AR by Darren Clark on behalf of the Authors (05 May 2016) Author's response Manuscript

Short summary

Based in the Mauritanian upwelling system, the article describes a Lagrangian study of biogeochemical processes within a freshly upwelled body of water as it advects offshore. We report rates of primary production, nitrogen assimilation, and regeneration and describe how these processes relate to the dynamics of the upwelling regime. This system is perhaps the least studied of the four major eastern boundary upwelling systems and so these measurements provide important new insights.