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Assessment of nitrogen loading from the Kiso-Sansen Rivers into Ise Bay using stable isotopes 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
Ryo Sugimoto Akihide Kasai Kouichi Fujita Kenichi Sakaguchi Tomomi Mizuno 《Journal of Oceanography》2011,67(2):231-240
Concentrations of particulate organic nitrogen (PN), dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN), and their nitrogen isotope ratios
(δ
15N) in the Kiso-Sansen Rivers were determined from monthly observations over the course of a year to assess variations in the
form and sources of riverine nitrogen discharged into Ise Bay. The δ
15N values of NO3
− observed in the Kiso-Sansen Rivers showed a logarithmic decreasing trend from 8 to 0‰, which varied with the river discharge,
indicating mixing between point sources with high δ
15N and non-point sources with low δ
15N. The influence of isotope fractionation of in situ biogeochemical processes (mainly DIN assimilation by phytoplankton) on
δ
15N of NO3
− was negligible, because sufficient concentrations of NH4
+ for phytoplankton demand would inhibit the assimilation of NO3
−. A simple relationship between river discharge and δ
15N of NO3
− showed that the fraction of total NO3
− flux arising from point sources increased from 4.0–6.3% (1.1–1.8 tN day−1) during higher discharge (>600 m3 s−1) to 30.2–48.3% (2.6–4.1 tN day−1) during lower discharge (<300 m3 s−1). Riverine NO3
− discharge from the Kiso-Sansen Rivers can explain 75% of the variations in surface NO3
− at the head of Ise Bay over the year. 相似文献
2.
Hiroshi Ishida Yutaka W. Watanabe Joji Ishizaka Toshiya Nakano Naoki Nagai Yuji Watanabe Akifumi Shimamoto Nobuhiro Maeda Michimasa Magi 《Journal of Oceanography》2009,65(2):179-186
Our analysis of the last three decades of retrospective data of vertical distributions and size composition of chlorophyll-a
(Chl-a) over the western North Pacific has revealed significant changes of three indices related to Chl-a during summer season,
as follows: (1) decreasing linear trend of the proportion of Chl-a in surface layer to that of the whole water column by 0.4
and 2.3% year−1 in the subtropical area along 137°E (STA137) during 1972 to 1997 and in the Kuroshio Extension area along 175°E (KEA175) during 1990 to 2001; (2) increasing linear trend of the depth of subsurface Chl-a maximum (DCM) by 0.4 and 2.6 m year−1 in STA137 and KEA175; and (3) decreasing linear trend of larger-size Chl-a (>3 μm) by 0.1 and 2.5% year−1 in STA137 and KEA175, respectively. Water density (σ
θ
) at 75 m depth had also decreased by 0.006 and 0.05 year−1 in STA137 and KEA175, respectively. The ratio of biogenic opal to biogenic CaCO3 in the sinking flux decreased by 0.015 year−1 in the subtropical region from 1997 to 2005. These findings may indicate that the subsurface chlorophyll maximum is deepening
and larger phytoplankton such as diatoms has been decreasing during the past decade, associated with the decreasing density
of surface water caused by warming in the western North Pacific, especially in the summer. 相似文献
3.
Reiner Schlitzer 《Journal of Oceanography》2004,60(1):53-62
A global ocean inverse model that includes the 3D ocean circulation as well as the production, sinking and remineralization
of biogenic particulate matter is used to estimate the carbon export flux in the Pacific, north of 10°S. The model exploits
the existing large datasets for hydrographic parameters, dissolved oxygen, nutrients and carbon, and determines optimal export
production rates by fitting the model to the observed water column distributions by means of the “adjoint method”. In the model, the observations can be explained satisfactorily with an integrated carbon export production of about 3 Gt
C yr−1 (equivalent to 3⋅1015 gC yr−1) for the considered zone of the Pacific Ocean. This amounts to about a third of the global ocean carbon export of 9.6 Gt
C yr−1 in the model. The highest export fluxes occur in the coastal upwelling region off northwestern America and in the tropical
eastern Pacific. Due to the large surface area, the open-ocean, oligotrophic region in the central North Pacific also contributes
significantly to the total North Pacific export flux (0.45 Gt C yr−1), despite the rather small average flux densities in this region (13 gC m−2yr−1). Model e-ratios (calculated here as ratios of model export production to primary production, as inferred from satellite observations) range
from as high a value as 0.4 in the tropical Pacific to 0.17 in the oligotrophic central north Pacific. Model e-ratios in the northeastern Pacific upwelling regions amount to about 0.3 and are lower than previous estimates.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
4.
Hajime Kawakami Makio C. Honda Kazuhiko Matsumoto Tetsuichi Fujiki Shuichi Watanabe 《Journal of Oceanography》2010,66(1):71-83
Observations of primary productivity, 234Th, and particulate organic carbon (POC) were made from west to east across the northern North Pacific Ocean (from station
K2 to Ocean Station Papa) during September–October 2005. Primary productivities in this region varied longitudinally from
approximately 236 to 444 mgC m−2d−1 and clearly indicate the West High East Low (WHEL) trend. We estimated east-west variations in the POC flux from the surface
layer (0–100 m) by using 234Th as a tracer. POC fluxes in the western region (44–53 mgC m−2d−1) were higher than those in the eastern region (21–34 mgC m−2d−1). However, the export ratios (e-ratios) ranged from approximately 8% to 16% and did not show the WHEL trend. Contrary to our expectation, no relation between
POC flux (or e-ratio) and diatom biomass (or dominance) was apparent in autumn in the northern North Pacific. 相似文献
5.
Particulate organic carbon (POC) is vertically transported to the oceanic interior by aggregates and their ballasts, mainly CaCO3 and biogenic opal, with a smaller role for lithogenic aerosols through the mesopelagic zone. Diel migrating zooplankton communities effect vertical transport and remineralization of POC in the upper layers of the ocean. Below 1.5 km, the presence of zooplankton is reduced and thus the aggregates travel mainly by gravitational transport. We normalized the fluxes of POC, CaCO3, and biogenic opal from data published on samples collected at 134 globally distributed, bottom-tethered, time-series sediment trap (TS-trap) stations to annual mole fluxes at the mesopelagic/bathypelagic boundary (m/b) at 2 km and defined them as Fm/bCorg, Fm/bCinorg, and Fm/bSibio. Using this global data set, we investigated (1) the geographic contrasts of POC export at m/b and (2) the supply rate of ∑CO2 to the world mesopelagic water column. Fm/bCorg varies from 25 (Pacific Warm Pool) to 605 (divergent Arabian Sea) mmolC m−2 yr−1; Fm/bCinorg varies from >8 (high latitude Polar Oceans) or 15 (Pacific Warm Pool) to 459 (divergent Arabian Sea) mmolC m−2 yr−1; and Fm/bSibio, the most spatially/temporally variable flux, ranges from 6 (North Atlantic Drift) to 1118 (Pacific Subarctic Gyre) mmolSi m−2 yr−1. The oceanic region exhibiting the highest POC flux over a significantly large region is the area of the North Pacific Boreal Gyres where the average Fm/bCorg = 213, Fm/bCinorg = 126, and Fm/bSibio = 578 mmol m−2 yr−1. Fm/bCorg and Fm/bCinorg are particularly high in large upwelling margins, including the divergent Arabian Sea and off Cape Verde. One of the data sets showing the lowest flux over a significant region/basin is Fm/bCorg = 39, Fm/bCinorg = 69, and Fm/bSibio = 22 mmol m−2 yr−1 in the North Pacific subtropical/tropical gyres; Pan-Atlantic average fluxes are similar except Fm/bSibio fluxes are even lower. Where Corg/Cinorg and Sibio/Cinorg are <1 defines the “Carbonate Ocean”, and where these ratios are ?1 defines the “Silica Ocean”. The Carbonate Ocean occupies about 80% of the present world pelagic ocean between the two major oceanographic fronts, the North Pacific Polar Front and the Antarctic Polar Front, and the Silica Ocean is found on the polar sides of these fronts. The total global annual fluxes of Fm/bCorg, Fm/bCinorg, and Fm/bSibio at m/b calculated by parameterizations of the export flux data from 134 stations are surprisingly similar; 36.2, 33.8, and 34.6 teramol yr−1 (120, 112, and 114 mmol m−2 yr−1), respectively, resulting in a near uniform binary ratio between the above three elements of about one. The global ternary % ratios estimated from 152 TS-trap samples of the three elements are 35:32:33. From our global Fm/bCorg and a published model estimate of the global export production, we estimate the regeneration rate of CO2 through the mesopelagic zone by the biological pump is 441 teramolC yr−1. Based on our global Fm/bCinorg and recently estimated global primary production of PIC, 36-86 teramolC yr−1 of PIC is assumed to be dissolved within the upper 2 km of the water column. 相似文献
6.
Mikitoshi Hirabara Hiroshi Ishizaki Goro Yamanaka Hiroyuki Tsujino Ichiro Ishikawa 《Journal of Oceanography》2010,66(5):633-647
An analysis is presented of snapshot data (eastward and northward velocity components: u and v; tracer such as potential temperature: τ) from an eddy-resolving (Rgrid: 1/12°) ocean model experiment, in order to explore a method for improving eddy-permitting
model performance. Horizontal 3 × 3 R-grid averages give the eddy-permitting grid (P-grid: 1/4°) variables: 〈u〉, 〈v〉, and 〈τ〉, where 〈〉 denotes the spatial P-grid scale average. The difference between the horizontal tracer flux across the boundary
face of a P-grid and that across the corresponding faces of R-grids is estimated as F2E. It is found that the correlations among the gradients of u, v, and τ give a good approximation F2C to the estimated flux F2E. The approximated flux is a function of these gradients and the grid size. A method is presented for implementing the F2C for density to an eddying ocean model as an additional advection. Practical experiments were conducted with a realistic configuration.
It is shown that the zonal mean isotherms in the Kuroshio extension region are more flattened in the run using the proposed
method than in another run using the conventional horizontal biharmonic operator, suggesting that the additional flux correction
leads to an enhancement of sub-basin scale mixing. 相似文献
7.
Relations between sea-surface temperature (T
s) and heat flux at the sea surface (F) have been investigated using data from ocean observation buoys located off Shikoku in the Sea of Japan and in the East China
Sea. Wavelet transformation decomposed F and T
s to wavelet coefficients (WLC) in the period-time domain. Assuming one-dimensional heat transfer by eddy diffusion in the
upper ocean, the phase difference (δθ) defined as the difference between the phase of the temporal change rate of T
s, and the phase of F ranges statistically from 0 to +π/4 when F changes T
s, and is around −π/2 when heat convergence in the sea (Av) forces T
s. The δθ values are distributed from 0 to +π/4 at one-day and one-year periods at all buoys. WLC amplitude (WLCA) of F at periods from 16 to 32 day periods, which may be caused by the atmospheric ridge-trough systems, maintains energy longer
than WLCA at periods from 2 to 16 days, which may be caused by monsoonal surges. At periods from 2 to 64 days, δθ values distribute
from 0 to +π/4 or around −π/2 at each event, reflecting the surroundings of each ocean, i.e., Kuroshio recirculation in the
off-Shikoku area, water-temperature front in the Sea of Japan, and water exchange in the continental shelf edge in the East
China Sea. We demonstrate that the wavelet analysis can characterize the correspondence between irregular signals of F and T
s in various time scales and locations.
This revised version was published online in August 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
8.
Yugo Shimizu Takanori Iwao Ichiro Yasuda Shin-Ichi Ito Tomowo Watanabe Kazuyuki Uehara Nobuyuki Shikama Toshiya Nakano 《Journal of Oceanography》2004,60(2):453-462
Six newly developed floats, which were set to drift on the 26.7 σθ isopycnal surface and to profile temperature, salinity and pressure above 1000 dbar once a week, were deployed in the Oyashio
and Kuroshio Extension (KE) in order to examine the circulation, formation site and time scale of newly formed North Pacific
Intermediate Water (NPIW). The floats were deployed in February or May 2001, and the data from their deployments to December
2002 are analyzed here. Four of the six floats were deployed near the KE axis at around the first meander crest, and they
moved eastward to 157°E–176°W at latitudes of 30°N–45°N. The other two floats deployed in the Oyashio water with low-potential
vorticity near the south coast of Hokkaido moved southward to reach the KE front and then moved eastward to the same region
as the first four floats. The temperature and salinity at 26.7 σθ measured by the profiling floats indicate that the source waters of NPIW, Oyashio and Kuroshio waters are drastically mixed
and modified in the mixed water region west of 160°E. The floats were separated into the three paths east of 160°E between
the Kuroshio Extension front and the north of Water-Mass front (nearly subarctic front). New NPIW is judged to be formed along
these three paths since the vertical profiles of temperature and salinity are quite smooth, having a salinity minimum at about
26.7σθ along each path. Kuroshio-Oyashio isopycnal mixing ratios of the new NPIW are 7:3, 6:4 and 5:5 at 26.7σθ along the southern, middle and northern paths, respectively. Potential vorticity converges to about 14–15 × 10−11 m−1s−1 along these paths. The time scale of new NPIW formation is estimated to be 1–1.5 years from the merger of Oyashio and Kuroshio
waters to the formation of the new NPIW.
This revised version was published online in July 2006 with corrections to the Cover Date. 相似文献
9.
A total of 293 measurements of respiration rate were made on planktonic crustaceans collected in different seasons from the
Inland Sea of Japan. The relationship between the rate of oxygen consumption (R,μl O2 indiv.−1 hr−1) and body dry weight (W, mg indiv.−1), as expressed by a power function (R=aW
b
, or logR=loga+b logW), was established as a function of temperature (T, °C). The slope of the regression equation (b) was not significantly affected by seasonal temperature variation, but the intercept of the equation (loga) was strongly influenced by temperature. The equation describing this general relation is logR=(0.0444T−0.333)+0.713 logW. 相似文献
10.
Fugacity of CO2 (fCO2), temperature, salinity, nutrients, and chlorophyll-a were measured in the surface waters of southwestern East Sea/Japan Sea in July 2005. Surface waters were divided into three
waters based on hydrographic characteristics: the water with moderate sea surface temperature (SST) and high sea surface salinity
(SSS) located east of the front (East water); the water with high SST and moderate SSS located west of the front (West water);
and the water with low SST and SSS located in the middle part of the study area (Middle water). High fCO2 larger than 420 μatm were found in the West water. In the Middle water, CO2 was undersaturated with respect to the atmosphere, with values between 246 and 380 μatm. Moderate fCO2 values ranging from 370 to 420 μatm were observed in the East water. For the East and West waters, estimates of temperature
dependency of fCO2 (12.6 and 15.1 μatm °C−1, respectively) were rather similar to a theoretical value, indicating that SST is likely to be a major factor controlling
the surface fCO2 distribution in these two regions. In the Middle water, however, the estimated temperature dependence was somewhat lower
than the theoretical value, and relatively high concentrations of surface chlorophyll-a coincided with the low surface fCO2, implying that biological uptake may considerably affect the fCO2 distribution. The net sea-to-air CO2 flux of the study area was estimated to be 0.30±4.81 mmol m−2 day−1 in summer, 2005. 相似文献
11.
Kazunori Akitomo 《Journal of Oceanography》1988,44(4):171-188
We numerically investigated the physical process of water exchange caused by fluctuations of the front. This front is formed
in a vertically two-dimensional NH-model (non-hydrostatic model) under steady forcing and simulates well the front observed
during winter in the Kii Channel, Japan. The velocity field in the model has two kinds of oscillations. The first has a period
of 6∼12 hr and is caused by intermittent gravitational convection in the frontal zone. The period and the intensity of intermittent
convection are determined by buoyancy flux through the side boundaries as well as surface cooling. The other is associated
with large scale circulation driven at the side boundaries and is controlled by the Coriolis force and the bottom stress.
Its period of 3∼4 days is determined by the sum of the inertial period and the spin down time for the baroclinic mode of the
along-front velocity component. These oscillations make the position of the front fluctuate with the same periods.
We next examined water exchange across the fluctuating front by numerically tracking a number of labelled particles. Intermittent
convection induces exchange of particles in the frontal zone and large scale circulations transport the exchanged particles
toward offshore or onshore through the lower layer. The exchange rate and the dispersion coefficient are calculated in the
NH-model as 0.85 and 2.3×103 cm2 sec−1, respectively. On the other hand, in the H-model (hydrostatic model) parameterizing gravitational convections with a convective
adjustment method, these values are reduced to 0.68 and 3.2×102 cm2 sec−1, respectively. This result implies that intermittent convections in the frontal zone have a large effect on water exchange
across the front, and that no little water is exchanged across the fluctuating front in an actual shallow sea, such as observed
in the Kii Channel. 相似文献
12.
Tosio Nan-niti 《Journal of Oceanography》1984,40(6):405-409
To refine the previous hypothesis of turbulent energy spectrum (Nan-niti, 1970), further theoretical consideration and a simple
experiment using electric fans was carried out. From the hypothesis ofq=δε/δk andεq=const., the following relations are derived for the spectrumF, and the autocorrelation functionR:F(k)∼k
−(5−2α)/3 andR(t)∼1−(t/τ)2(1−α)/3, whereq is the local energy supply,ε the energy dissipation rate, andk the wavenumber,t the time,τ the lifetime of the largest eddy. The following further relations are also obtained:ε∼l
−α,v∼l
β,v∼τ
γ andγ=(1−α)/(2+α)=β/(1−β), wherel is the length scale of the phenomenon,v turbulent velocity,α=1/2,β=1/6, andγ=1/5. The experimental results support these relations. 相似文献
13.
Katsuyuki Sasaki Tsuneo Ono Katsuhisa Tanaka Kiyoshi Kawasaki Hiroshi Saito 《Journal of Oceanography》1998,54(5):593-603
Partial pressure of CO2 in surface sea water (pCO2) was measured continuously off Sanriku in May, 1997 by a new pCO2 measurement system. We have examined the relation of pCO2 to physical factors such as temperature, salinity and density, chemical and biological factors such as nutrients and carbonate
system and chlorophylla. In the Kuroshio region pCO2 was not correlated to physical, chemical and biological factors in the range of 260 to 290 μatom. In transition water (Tr1)
between Kuroshio and the Oyashio second branch, pCO2 was weakly correlated to physical factors and strongly correlated to nutrients. In transition water (Tr2) between the Oyashio
first and second branches, pCO2 was highly correlated to temperature (SD: 10.9 μatom) and salinity (SD: 8.6 μatom) and also to nutrients. In transition water
(Tr1+Tr2), pCO2 was highly multivariately correlated to temperature (T), salinity (S), chlorophylla (CH) (or nitrate+nitrite (N)) as follows, pCO2(μatom)= 10.8×T(°C)+27.7×S+2.57CH(μg/1) −769, R2= 0.86, SD = 20.9, or pCO2(μatom)= 3.9×T(°C)+25.5×S+16.0NO3(μM) −686, R2= 0.99, SD = 6.4. Moreover, pCO2 was predicted by only two factors, one physical (S) and the other chemical/biological (N) as follows: pCO2 (μatom)=32.8×S+19.4N−908, R2=0.97, SD=8.4. The pH measured at 25°C was well correlated with normalized pCO2 at a fixed temperature. In the Oyashio region pCO2 was decreased to 160 μatom, probably because of spring bloom, but was not correlated linearly to chlorophylla. The results obtained showed the possibility of estimating pCO2 of the Oyashio and transition regions in May by satellite remote sensing of SST, but the problem of estimation of pCO2 in Kuroshio water remains to be solved. 相似文献
14.
To understand the processes transporting nitrate to the surface layer of the western and central equatorial Pacific, we measured
the nitrogen isotopic ratio of nitrate (δ
15NO
3
−
), which is a very useful tracer of the source of nitrate, above 200 m depth in this region in December 1999. δ
15NO
3
−
is higher (about 13.0‰) in the surface water than in the subsurface water (where it is about 6.5‰) due to isotopic fractionation
during nitrate uptake by phytoplankton. The δ
15NO
3
−
value has a roughly linear relationship with the natural logarithm of nitrate concentration (ln[NO
3
−
]). However, for values above 150 m depth, the intercept of this linear relationship varies with position from east to west.
On the other hand, the data at 200 m depth at all observation stations are concentrated around a single point (ln[NO
3
−
] = 2.5 and δ
15NO
3
−
= 6.5‰) and do not fit the linear relationships for the shallower values. To examine the meaning of the observed distributions
of δ
15NO
3
−
and nitrate concentration we developed a box model including nitrogen and nitrogen isotopic cycles. By reproducing the observed
relationship between δ
15NO
3
−
and nitrate concentration using this model we found that most nitrate is transported horizontally from the eastern equatorial
Pacific. We also conducted case studies and investigated the effects of differences in pathways of nitrate transport on the
distributions of δ
15NO
3
−
and nitrate concentration. From these studies we concluded that the observed linear relationships between δ
15NO
3
−
and ln[NO
3
−
], having a common slope around 6‰ but different intercepts at each station, are evidence of the significant horizontal transport
of nitrate to the surface water in this area. 相似文献
15.
In order to examine temporal variations of the surface oceanic and atmospheric fCO2 and the DIC concentration, we analyzed air and seawater samples collected during the period May 1992–June 1996 in the northwestern
North Pacific, about 30 km off the coast of the main island of Japan. The atmospheric CO2 concentration has increased secularly at a rate of 1.9 ppmv yr−1, and it showed a clear seasonal cycle with a maximum in spring and a minimum late in summer, produced mainly by seasonally-dependent
terrestrial biospheric activities. DIC also showed a prominent seasonal cycle in the surface ocean; the minimum and maximum
values of the cycle appeared in early fall and in early spring, respectively, due primarily to the seasonally-dependent activities
of marine biota and partly to the vertical mixing of seawater and the coastal upwelling. The oceanic fCO2 values were almost always lower than those of the atmospheric fCO2, suggesting that this area of the ocean acts as a sink for atmospheric CO2. Values varied seasonally, mainly reflecting seasonal changes of SST and DIC, with a secular increase at a rate of 3.7 μatm
yr−1. The average values of the annual net CO2 flux between the ocean and the atmosphere calculated by using the different bulk equations ranged between −0.8 and −1.7 mol
m−2yr−1, and its magnitude was enhanced and reduced late in spring and mid-summer, respectively, due mainly to the seasonally varying
oceanic fCO2. 相似文献
16.
Circulation and mixing at the New England shelfbreak front: Results of purposeful tracer experiments 总被引:1,自引:0,他引:1
We present the results of six dye tracer experiments that measured the mixing and circulation at the shelfbreak front on the New England Shelf. The last three were conducted during the New England Shelfbreak Productivity Experiment (NESPEX) with concurrent isopycnal float deployments. The results are consistent with the Chapman and Lentz [Chapman, D.C., and Lentz, S.J. (1994). Trapping of a coastal density front by the bottom boundary layer. Journal of Physical Oceanography, 24, 1465–1479.] model prediction of the separation and upwelling along the shelfbreak front of bottom boundary layer (BBL) water forced by an Ekman buoyancy flux, but show considerable variability. Cross-shelf velocities at the detachment point are 2–3 × 10−2 m/s. But seaward, over the slope region, dye tagged water was sheared from the main patch into small filaments that upwelled along the front with cross-shelf speeds up to 0.1 m/s. Cross-shelf diffusion was of order 10 m2/s in the mixed bottom layer and 1 m2/s in the interior along the front. Within the stratified front, the mean vertical diffusivity was Kz 4 × 10−6 m2/s. The dispersion of shelfwater in the slope region is effected by turbulent flow with advective speeds exceeding the small scale diffusive mixing. The mean flux of the detached BBL water is sufficient to account for the net loss of shelf water during its transit from Cape Cod to Cape Hatteras. 相似文献
17.
Masahiro Narukawa Masahiro Sakata Kohji Marumoto Kazuo Asakura 《Journal of Oceanography》2006,62(3):249-257
In Tokyo Bay the concentrations of dissolved gaseous mercury (DGM) in the surface seawater and total gaseous mercury (TGM)
over the sea were measured during December 2003, October 2004 and January 2005. Based on these data, the evasional fluxes
of mercury from the sea surface were estimated using a gas exchange model. In addition, an automatic wet and dry deposition
sampler was used to measure the wet and dry depositional fluxes of mercury from December 2003 to November 2004 at three locations
in and near Tokyo Bay. The results indicate that the average DGM and TGM levels of seven locations are 52 ± 26 ng m−3 and 1.9 ± 0.6 ng m−3, respectively, which shows that the surface seawater in Tokyo Bay is supersaturated with gaseous mercury, leading to an average
mercury evasional flux of 140 ± 120 ng m−2d−1. On the other hand, the annual average wet and dry depositional fluxes of mercury at three locations were 19 ± 3 μg m−2yr−1 and 20 ± 9 μg m−2yr−1, respectively. These depositional fluxes correspond to the daily average total depositional flux of 110 ± 20 ng m−2d−1. Thus, it is suggested that in Tokyo Bay, the evasional fluxes of mercury are comparable to the depositional fluxes. 相似文献
18.
Tsutomu Ikeda 《Journal of Oceanography》2011,67(6):785-790
This study demonstrates reduced electron transfer system (ETS) activity of mixed copepods collected from 5,000 to 7,000 m
depths [3.21 ± 1.25 μl O2 (mg protein)−1 h−1 at 10°C] as compared with mixed copepods from 0 to 200 m depths [5.93 ± 1.66 μl O2 (mg protein)−1 h−1 at 10°C] of the western subarctic Pacific. At the in situ temperature of 1.5°C, the 5,000–7,000 m ETS data, in terms of wet
mass (WM)-specific respiration rates (R), is equivalent to [0.052 ± 0.021 μl O2 (mg WM)−1 h−1] which is similar to or greater than those reported for selected copepods or mixed mesozooplankton from <5,000 m depth by
previous workers. 相似文献
19.
In this study we test Talley's hypothesis that Oyashio winter mixed-layer water (26.5–26.6σ θ) increases its density to produce the North Pacific Intermediate Water (NPIW) salinity minimum (26.7– 26.8σθ) in the Mixed Water Region, assuming a combination of cabbeling and double diffusion. The possible density change of Oyashio
winter mixed-layer water is discussed using an instantaneous ratio of the change of temperature and salinity along any particular
intrusion (R
l
). We estimate the range of R
l
DD
required to convert Oyashio winter mixed-layer water to the NPIW salinity minimum due to double diffusion, and then assume
double-diffusive intrusions as this conversion mechanism. A double-diffusive intrusion model is used to estimate R
l
DD
in a situation where salt fingering dominates vertical mixing, as well as to determine whether Oyashio winter mixed-layer
water can become the NPIW salinity minimum. Possible density changes are estimated from the model R
l
DD
by assuming the amount of density change due to cabbeling. From these results, we conclude that Oyashio winter mixed-layer
water contributes to a freshening of the lighter layer of the NPIW salinity minimum (around 26.70σθ) in the MWR. 相似文献
20.
Tomoyuki Shikata Sou Nagasoe Tadashi Matsubara Yasuhiro Yamasaki Yohei Shimasaki Yuji Oshima Takuji Uchida Ian R. Jenkinson Tsuneo Honjo 《Journal of Oceanography》2008,64(3):355-365
In the present study, we have investigated the conditions influencing encystment and excystment in the dinoflagellate Gyrodinium instriatum under laboratory conditions. We incubated G. instriatum in modified whole SWM-3 culture medium and in versions of modified SWM-3 from which NO3
−, PO4
3−, NO3
− + PO4
3−, or Si had been omitted and observed encystment. Percentage encystment was high in the media without N and without P, while
the percentage encystment in the medium lacking both N and P was highest. Moreover, to investigate N or P concentration which
induced the encystment, Gyrodinium instriatum was also incubated in media with different concentrations of inorganic N and P; the concentrations of NO2
− + NO3
− and PO4
3− were measured over time. The precursors of cysts appeared within 2 or 3 days of a decrease in NO2
− + NO3
− or PO4
3− concentration to values lower than 1 μM or 0.2 μM, respectively. When cysts produced in the laboratory were incubated, we observed excystment after 8–37 days, without a mandatory
period of darkness or low temperature. We incubated cysts collected from nature at different temperatures or in the dark or
light and observed excystments. Natural cysts excysted at temperatures from 10 to 30°C, in both light and dark, but excystment
was delayed at low temperatures. These studies indicate that G. instriatum encysts in low N or P concentration and excysts over a wide temperature range, regardless of light conditions, after short
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