A dissolved cobalt plume in the oxygen minimum zone of the eastern tropical South Pacific

Hawco, Nicholas J.; Ohnemus, Daniel C.; Resing, Joseph A.; Twining, Benjamin S.; Saito, Mak A.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5697-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 20

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5697-2016

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

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-5697-2016

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

Articles | Volume 13, issue 20

Research article

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17 Oct 2016

Research article |

| 17 Oct 2016

A dissolved cobalt plume in the oxygen minimum zone of the eastern tropical South Pacific

Nicholas J. Hawco, Daniel C. Ohnemus, Joseph A. Resing, Benjamin S. Twining, and Mak A. Saito

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Final revised paper (published on 17 Oct 2016)
Preprint (discussion started on 18 May 2016)

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

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RC1: 'bg-2016-169', Anonymous Referee #1, 07 Jun 2016
- AC1: 'Response to reviewers', Mak Saito, 26 Jul 2016
RC2: 'Review of "A cobalt plume in the oxygen minimum zone of the Eastern Tropical South Pacific"', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Jul 2016
- AC2: 'Response to reviewers', Mak Saito, 26 Jul 2016

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

ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (04 Aug 2016) by Caroline P. Slomp

AR by Mak Saito on behalf of the Authors (13 Sep 2016) Author's response Manuscript

ED: Publish as is (21 Sep 2016) by Caroline P. Slomp

AR by Mak Saito on behalf of the Authors (24 Sep 2016)

Short summary

Cobalt is a scarce nutrient required by phytoplankton. We report more than 800 measurements of dissolved cobalt in the South Pacific Ocean, which show high cobalt concentrations in anoxic subsurface waters offshore of Peru. Coastal cobalt sources may be stronger under low oxygen and could fluctuate as climate change is expected to alter the extent of these low-oxygen regions.