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

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
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https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3485-2016

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 11

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15 Jun 2016

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Spring bloom onset in the Nordic Seas

Alexandre Mignot, Raffaele Ferrari, and Kjell Arne Mork

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AC: Author comment | RC: Referee comment | SC: Short comment | EC: Editor comment

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RC C5659: 'Review of Mignot et al. 2015', Anonymous Referee #1, 23 Sep 2015
- AC C9809: 'Response 1', Alexandre Mignot, 17 Feb 2016
RC C6334: 'Review of 'Spring bloom onset in the Nordic Seas' - bg-2015-396', Anonymous Referee #2, 08 Oct 2015
- AC C9810: 'Response 2', Alexandre Mignot, 17 Feb 2016
RC C7408: 'RC for Mignot et al., 2015: Spring bloom onset in the Nordic Seas', Anonymous Referee #3, 06 Nov 2015
- AC C9811: 'Response 3', Alexandre Mignot, 17 Feb 2016
RC C7527: 'Review Mignot et al.', Anonymous Referee #4, 10 Nov 2015
- AC C9812: 'Response 4', Alexandre Mignot, 17 Feb 2016

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

ED: Reconsider after major revisions (18 Feb 2016) by Emilio Marañón

AR by Alexandre Mignot on behalf of the Authors (25 Mar 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Referee Nomination & Report Request started (29 Mar 2016) by Emilio Marañón

RR by Anonymous Referee #2 (11 Apr 2016)

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (20 Apr 2016) by Emilio Marañón

AR by Alexandre Mignot on behalf of the Authors (04 May 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (09 May 2016) by Emilio Marañón

AR by Alexandre Mignot on behalf of the Authors (16 May 2016) Manuscript

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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.