Articles | Volume 19, issue 16
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3911-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-19-3911-2022
Research article
 | 
30 Aug 2022
Research article |  | 30 Aug 2022

Physical mechanisms for biological carbon uptake during the onset of the spring phytoplankton bloom in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea (BOUSSOLE site)

Liliane Merlivat, Michael Hemming, Jacqueline Boutin, David Antoine, Vincenzo Vellucci, Melek Golbol, Gareth A. Lee, and Laurence Beaumont

Related authors

Net community production in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea from glider and buoy measurements
Michael P. Hemming, Jan Kaiser, Jacqueline Boutin, Liliane Merlivat, Karen J. Heywood, Dorothee C. E. Bakker, Gareth A. Lee, Marcos Cobas García, David Antoine, and Kiminori Shitashima
Ocean Sci., 18, 1245–1262, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-1245-2022,https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-1245-2022, 2022
Short summary

Related subject area

Biogeochemistry: Air - Sea Exchange
Sea–air methane flux estimates derived from marine surface observations and instantaneous atmospheric measurements in the northern Labrador Sea and Baffin Bay
Judith Vogt, David Risk, Evelise Bourlon, Kumiko Azetsu-Scott, Evan N. Edinger, and Owen A. Sherwood
Biogeosciences, 20, 1773–1787, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1773-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1773-2023, 2023
Short summary
Global analysis of the controls on seawater dimethylsulfide spatial variability
George Manville, Thomas G. Bell, Jane P. Mulcahy, Rafel Simó, Martí Galí, Anoop S. Mahajan, Shrivardhan Hulswar, and Paul R. Halloran
Biogeosciences, 20, 1813–1828, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1813-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1813-2023, 2023
Short summary
Estimating Marine Carbon Uptake in the Northeast Pacific Using a Neural Network Approach
Patrick J. Duke, Roberta C. Hamme, Debby Ianson, Peter Landschützer, Mohamed M. M. Ahmed, Neil C. Swart, and Paul A. Covert
EGUsphere, https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-870,https://doi.org/10.5194/egusphere-2023-870, 2023
Short summary
Air–sea gas exchange in a seagrass ecosystem – results from a 3He ∕ SF6 tracer release experiment
Ryo Dobashi and David T. Ho
Biogeosciences, 20, 1075–1087, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1075-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-1075-2023, 2023
Short summary
Concentrations of dissolved dimethyl sulfide (DMS), methanethiol and other trace gases in context of microbial communities from the temperate Atlantic to the Arctic Ocean
Valérie Gros, Bernard Bonsang, Roland Sarda-Estève, Anna Nikolopoulos, Katja Metfies, Matthias Wietz, and Ilka Peeken
Biogeosciences, 20, 851–867, https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-851-2023,https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-20-851-2023, 2023
Short summary

Cited articles

Álvarez, M., Sanleón-Bartolomé, H., Tanhua, T., Mintrop, L., Luchetta, A., Cantoni, C., Schroeder, K., and Civitarese, G.: The CO2 system in the Mediterranean Sea: a basin wide perspective, Ocean Sci., 10, 69–92, https://doi.org/10.5194/os-10-69-2014, 2014. 
Andersen, V. and Prieur, L.: One-month study in the open NW Mediterranean Sea (DYNAPROC experiment, May 1995): Overview of hydrobiogeochemical structures and effects of wind events, Deep-Sea Res. Pt. I, 47, 397–422, 2000. 
Antoine, D., Guevel, P., Desté, J.-F., Bécu, G., Louis, F., Scott, A. J., and Bardey, P.: The “BOUSSOLE” buoy; a new transparent-to-swell taut mooring dedicated to marine optics: design, tests and performance at sea, J. Atmos. Ocean. Technol., 25, 968–989, 2008a. 
Antoine, D., d'Ortenzio, F., Hooker, S. B., Bécu, G., Gentili, B., Tailliez, D., and Scott, A. J.: Assessment of uncertainty in the ocean reflectance determined by three satellite ocean color sensors (MERIS, SeaWiFS and MODIS-A) at an offshore site in the Mediterranean Sea (BOUSSOLE project), J. Geophys. Res., 113, CO7013, https://doi.org/10.1029/2007JC004472, 2008b. 
Antoine, D. M., Chami, H., Claustre, F., D'Ortenzio, A., Morel, G., Bécu, B., Gentili, F., Louis, J., Ras, E., Roussier, A. J., Scott, D., Tailliez, S. B., Hooker, P., Guevel, J.-F., Desté, C., Dempsey, C., and Adams, D.: BOUSSOLE: a joint CNRS-INSU, ESA, CNES and NASA Ocean Color Calibration and Validation Activity, NASA Technical memorandum, no. TM-2006-214147, NASA/GSFC, Greenbelt, USA, National Aeronautics and Space Administration, Washington, DC 20546-0001, 2006. 
Short summary
We use in situ high-temporal-resolution measurements of dissolved inorganic carbon and atmospheric parameters at the air–sea interface to analyse phytoplankton bloom initiation identified as the net rate of biological carbon uptake in the Mediterranean Sea. The shift from wind-driven to buoyancy-driven mixing creates conditions for blooms to begin. Active mixing at the air–sea interface leads to the onset of the surface phytoplankton bloom due to the relaxation of wind speed following storms.
Altmetrics
Final-revised paper
Preprint