Long-distance particle transport to the central Ionian Sea

Berline, Léo; Doglioli, Andrea Michelangelo; Petrenko, Anne; Barrillon, Stéphanie; Espinasse, Boris; Le Moigne, Frederic A. C.; Simon-Bot, François; Thyssen, Melilotus; Carlotti, François

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-18-6377-2021

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14 Dec 2021

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| 14 Dec 2021

Long-distance particle transport to the central Ionian Sea

Léo Berline, Andrea Michelangelo Doglioli, Anne Petrenko, Stéphanie Barrillon, Boris Espinasse, Frederic A. C. Le Moigne, François Simon-Bot, Melilotus Thyssen, and François Carlotti

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BIOGEOCHEMICAL dataset collected during the PEACETIME cruise Guieu et al., https://doi.org/10.17882/75747

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While the Ionian Sea is considered a nutrient-depleted and low-phytoplankton biomass area, it is a crossroad for water mass circulation. In the central Ionian Sea, we observed a strong contrast in particle distribution across a ~100 km long transect. Using remote sensing and Lagrangian simulations, we suggest that this contrast finds its origin in the long-distance transport of particles from the north, west and east of the Ionian Sea, where phytoplankton production was more intense.