TY - JOUR
T1 - Nutrients and carbon budgets for the Gulf of Lion during the Moogli cruises
AU - Durrieu De Madron, Xavier
AU - Denis, Lionel
AU - Diaz, Frédérique
AU - Garcia, N.
AU - Guieu, Cécile
AU - Grenz, Christian
AU - Loÿe-Pilot, Marie Dominique
AU - Ludwig, Wolfgang
AU - Moutin, Thierry
AU - Raimbault, Patrick
AU - Ridame, Céline
N1 - Funding Information:
The authors wish to thank the support of the Pnec and the European Commission (through the Metro-Med program) for supporting this research. The assistance of the captains and crews of the R/V l’Atalante and le Suroit from Ifremer was greatly appreciated. R. Sempéré and two anonymous reviewers gave constructive criticisms, which strengthened the manuscript.
PY - 2003/9
Y1 - 2003/9
N2 - Shelf-slope exchanges and budgets of organic and inorganic nutrients are calculated for the Gulf of Lion continental margin in the northwestern Mediterranean. Computations are based on data from three seasonal marine surveys performed in March 1998, June 1998 and January 1999 in the framework of the French Programme National d'Environnement Côtier. A Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone type box model is used to calculate the advective exchanges between the shelf and the adjacent open sea and to estimate the budgets of non-conservative elements (DIP, DIN, DOP, DON, DOC, POC, PON, POP). These budgets consider river discharges, urban sewage supply, atmospheric deposition, and fluxes at the water-sediment and shelf-slope interfaces. Uncertainties on the fluxes and budgets are estimated to assess the robustness of the results with respect to the spatial variability of the system. Results indicate that shelf-slope exchanges by mixing predominate with respect to the major input terms (river discharge and sediment release). Budgets for inorganic nutrients, that show a strong concentration gradient between the shelf and the slope waters, are significantly different from zero and indicate an excess of these elements in the shelf water. For all surveys, these surpluses suggest (i) that the whole shelf system is autotrophic (1.6-4.3 × 103 mol C s-1) and acts as a sink of CO2, and (ii) that it is a site of net denitrification (119 mol N s-1) and acts as a sink of N2. Average shelf-slope fluxes of dissolved and particulate organic elements generally indicate an export to the open sea. However, the large uncertainty on these fluxes yields budgets for the shelf not significantly different from zero.
AB - Shelf-slope exchanges and budgets of organic and inorganic nutrients are calculated for the Gulf of Lion continental margin in the northwestern Mediterranean. Computations are based on data from three seasonal marine surveys performed in March 1998, June 1998 and January 1999 in the framework of the French Programme National d'Environnement Côtier. A Land-Ocean Interactions in the Coastal Zone type box model is used to calculate the advective exchanges between the shelf and the adjacent open sea and to estimate the budgets of non-conservative elements (DIP, DIN, DOP, DON, DOC, POC, PON, POP). These budgets consider river discharges, urban sewage supply, atmospheric deposition, and fluxes at the water-sediment and shelf-slope interfaces. Uncertainties on the fluxes and budgets are estimated to assess the robustness of the results with respect to the spatial variability of the system. Results indicate that shelf-slope exchanges by mixing predominate with respect to the major input terms (river discharge and sediment release). Budgets for inorganic nutrients, that show a strong concentration gradient between the shelf and the slope waters, are significantly different from zero and indicate an excess of these elements in the shelf water. For all surveys, these surpluses suggest (i) that the whole shelf system is autotrophic (1.6-4.3 × 103 mol C s-1) and acts as a sink of CO2, and (ii) that it is a site of net denitrification (119 mol N s-1) and acts as a sink of N2. Average shelf-slope fluxes of dissolved and particulate organic elements generally indicate an export to the open sea. However, the large uncertainty on these fluxes yields budgets for the shelf not significantly different from zero.
KW - Carbon cycle
KW - Ecosystem functioning
KW - Mediterranean Sea
KW - Nutrients budget
KW - Shelf-slope exchanges
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=10744219954&partnerID=8YFLogxK
UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/citedby.url?scp=10744219954&partnerID=8YFLogxK
U2 - 10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00024-0
DO - 10.1016/S0399-1784(03)00024-0
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:10744219954
SN - 0399-1784
VL - 26
SP - 421
EP - 433
JO - Oceanologica Acta
JF - Oceanologica Acta
IS - 4
ER -