Spring bloom onset in the Nordic Seas

Mignot, Alexandre; Ferrari, Raffaele; Mork, Kjell Arne

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3485-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 11

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3485-2016

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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3485-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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Spring bloom onset in the Nordic Seas

Alexandre Mignot, Raffaele Ferrari, and Kjell Arne Mork

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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.