The data presented here include the metadata (cruise, station number, geographic coordinates, water depth, temperature, salinity and solid-phase extracted dissolved organic carbon concentrations (SPE-DOC)) for multiple oceanographic cruises in the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern oceans (HOTS, BATS, SO254, SO245, SO248, ANT 28-II, ANT 28-IV, and 28-V) between 2009 and 2017. These metadata were used in conjunction with the accompanying dataset to assess the role of deep ocean mixing in the molecular composition of dissolved organic matter was compiled from the CTD bottle data of multiple cruises, some of which are available on PANGAEA at the following links: SO248: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.864673, SO245: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.890394, SO254: https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.890453.
The goal of this project is to capture and analyse fluctuations of the fresh water in the western Nordic Seas and to understand the related processes. The East Greenland Current in the Nordic Seas constitutes an important conduit for fresh water exiting the Arctic Ocean towards the North Atlantic. The Arctic Ocean receives huge amounts of fresh water by continental runoff and by import from the Pacific Ocean. Within the Arctic Ocean fresh water is concentrated at the surface through sea ice formation. The East Greenland Current carries this fresh water in variable fractions as sea ice and in liquid form; part of it enters the central Nordic Seas, via branching of the current and through eddies. It controls the intensity of deep water formation and dilutes the water masses which result from convection. The last decades showed significant changes of the fresh water yield and distribution in the Nordic Seas and such anomalies were found to circulate through the North Atlantic. In this project the fresh water inventory, its spatial distribution and its pathways between the East Greenland Current and the interior Greenland and Icelandic seas shall be captured by autonomous glider missions. The new measurements and existing data will, in combination with the modeling work of the research group, serve as basis for understanding the causes of the fresh water variability and their consequences for the North Atlantic circulation and deep water formation.
We present a high spatially resolved (around 300 m) data set on the chlorophyll-a concentrations of all phytoplankton (total chlorophyll-a), diatoms, haptophytes and chlorophytes various phytoplankton pigments (unit: mg/m³) estimated from particulate absorption data derived from underway AC-S measurements operated on eight R/V POLARSTERN expeditions in the Greenland Sea (North of 66.3°N to 82°N within the Atlantic Ocean) between 2015 to 2024: PS93.2, PS99.2, PS107, PS121, PS126, PS131, PS136 and PS143-2. For each data point we further provide the percentage of Atlantic Water and Polar Water and the association into the three regions: East Greenland Sea, Central Fram Strait and West Spitsbergen Current. Mind that the classification of water masses and regions is only valid for the Hausgarten area (78°N to 80°N and 7°W to 15°E). The details of the instrument set-up, the data and the methods are described in Bracher et al. (2025).
The data layers provided show current values for seawater temperature, pH, calcite and aragonite saturation (%), oxygen concentration, and particulate organic carbon (POC) flux to the seafloor at different depths (500, 1000, 2000, 3000, and 4000m) at the present day (1951-2000) and changes in these variables expected between 2041-2060 and 2081-2100 under different RCP scenarios. The data layers were generated following the methods described in Levin et al. (2020). In short, in 2019, we obtained the present day and future ocean projections for the different years which were compiled from all available data generated by Earth Systems Models as part of the Coupled Model Inter-comparison Project Phase 5 (CMIP5) to the Fifth Assessment Report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change. Three Earth System Models, including GFDL‐ESM‐2G, IPSL‐CM5A‐MR, and MPI‐ESM‐MR were collected and multi-model averages of temperature, pH, O2 , export production at 100-m depth (epc100), carbonate ion concentration (co3), and carbonate ion concentration for seawater in equilibrium with aragonite (co3satarg) and calcite (co3satcalc) were calculated. The epc100 was converted to export POC flux at the seafloor using the Martin curve (Martin et al., 1987) following the equation: POC flux = export production*(depth/export depth)0.858. The export depth was set to 100 m, and the water depth using the ETOPO1 Global Relief Model (Amante and Eakins, 2008). Seafloor aragonite and calcite saturation were computed by dividing co3 by co3satarg and co3satcalc. All variableswere reported as the inter-annual mean projections between 1951-2000, 2041-2060, and 2081-2100. The data for calcite and aragonite saturation can be found in Morato et al. (2020).
This data includes the dissolved organic matter (DOM) molecular composition data obtained via Fourier-transform ion cyclotron resonance mass spectrometry for multiple oceanographic cruises collected in the Atlantic, Pacific and Southern oceans (HOTS, BATS, SO254, SO245, SO248, ANT 28-II, ANT 28-IV, and 28-V) between 2009 and 2017. This analysis was conducted to assess the molecular composition of DOM in the context of ocean mixing. DOM was extracted and desalted using the solid phase extraction method as described in Dittmar et al. 2008. The extracts were stored frozen in methanol until analysis in 2019, when aliquots of the extracts were mixed with 50% ultrapure water (50:50 v/v) and diluted to a final carbon concentration of 2.5 ppm. DOM composition was determined on a SolariX XR FT-ICR-MS (Bruker Daltonik GmbH, Bremen, Germany) equipped with a 15 Tesla superconducting magnet and an electrospray ionization source (ESI; Bruker Apollo II ion source) in negative ion mode, as described in (Bercovici, Dittmar, and Niggemann 2022). Subsequent data processing and molecular formula assignment was conducted in ICBM-OCEAN, as described in (Merder et al. 2020).
The goal of this project is to quantify freshwater fluxes in the ocean, and improve our understanding of their temporal and spatial changes in terms of the interaction between ocean transport processes, surface net freshwater fluxes and river run-off, as well as mixing processes in the ocean. In particular, we aim at combining all available ocean salinity/freshwater data (including novel satellite-based salinity retrievals and ARGO data), surface freshwater fluxes (including HOAPS and NCEP net surface freshwater fluxes) and river discharge with a numerical model to improve our understanding of net surface sources of freshwater, near-surface freshwater budgets, and full-depth ocean freshwater transports. Respective sub-goals entail: -Improving the quality of SMOS and Aquarius surface salinity data and estimating respective error information required for their subsequent analysis and assimilation. - Expansion of the GECCO data assimilation system to incorporate surface salinity fields. - Evaluation of the sensitivity of subsurface salinity to freshwater fluxes (incl. run-off), surface salinity fields and subsurface salinity changes. - Estimates of surface and subsurface salinity fields, ocean transports of freshwater (including surface freshwater fluxes) from monthly mean SMOS and Aquarius fields, ARGO salinities and underway salinity measurements. - Quantifying the role of surface forcing (E-P-R) versus lateral transports and mixing of freshwater in modulating the freshwater content as function of depths and geographical position. Providing a best possible description of salinity changes and underlying processes in the Atlantic Ocean.
The geomagnetic field shields our habitat against solar wind and radiation from space. Due to the geometry of the field, the shielding in general is weakest at high latitudes. It is also anomalously weak in a region around the south Atlantic known as South Atlantic Anomaly (SAA), and the global dipole moment has been decreasing by nearly 10 percent since direct measurements of field intensity became possible in 1832. Due to our limited understanding of the geodynamo processes in Earths core, it is impossible to reliably predict the future evolution of both dipole moment and SAA over the coming decades. However, lack of magnetic field shielding as would be a consequence of further weakening of dipole moment and SAA region field intensity would cause increasing problems for modern technology, in particular satellites, which are vulnerable to radiation damage. A better understanding of the underlying processes is required to estimate the future development of magnetic field characteristics. The study of the past evolution of such characteristics based on historical, archeo- and paleomagnetic data, on time-scales of centuries to millennia, is essential to detect any recurrences and periodicities and provide new insights in dynamo processes in comparison to or in combination with numerical dynamo simulations. We propose to develop two new global spherical harmonic geomagnetic field models, spanning 1 and 10 kyrs, respectively, and designed in particular to study how long the uninterrupted decay of the dipole moment has been going on prior to 1832, and if the SAA is a recurring structure of the field.We will combine for the first time all available historical and archeomagnetic data, both directions and intensities, in a spherical harmonic model spanning the past 1000 years. Existing modelling methods will be adapted accordingly, and existing data bases will be complemented with newly published data. We will further acquire some new archeomagnetic data from the Cape Verde islands from historical times to better constrain the early evolution of the present-day SAA. In order to study the long-term field evolution and possible recurrences of similar weak field structures in this region, we will produce new paleomagnetic records from available marine sediment cores off the coasts of West Africa, Brazil and Chile. This region is weakly constrained in previous millennial scale models. Apart from our main aim to gain better insights into the previous evolution of dipole moment and SAA, the models will be used to study relations between dipole and non-dipole field contributions, hemispheric symmetries and large-scale flux patterns at the core-mantle boundary. These observational findings will provide new insights into geodynamo processes when compared with numerical dynamo simulation results.Moreover, the models can be used to estimate past geomagnetic shielding above Earths surface against solar wind and for nuclide production from galactic cosmic rays.
Der Süßwassereintrag in den Arktischen Ozean stellt einen wichtigen Antriebsmechanismus für regionale Meeresspiegeldynamik in der Arktis dar. Salzarmes Oberflächenwasser erzeugt und unterhält eine starke Schichtung im Arktischen Ozean. Diese Halokline schirmt größtenteils das kalte polare Oberflächenwasser und das Meereis von wärmerem Tiefenwasser atlantischen Ursprungs ab und verhindert so vertikale Wärmeflüsse. Veränderungen des Süßwassergehalts werden wahrscheinlich den regionalen Meeresspiegel direkt beeinflussen, aber ebenso wird eine modifizierte Ozeandynamik durch Massentransporte innerhalb der Arktis den Meeresspiegel verändern. Das hydrologische Regime des kontinentalen Abflusses unterliegt Schwankungen. Leider sind kontinuierliche Aufzeichnungen von kontinentalem Abfluss in den Arktischen Ozean zu selten, um wichtige wissenschaftliche Fragen über das Langzeitverhalten und die Entwicklung von arktischem Meeresspiegel und Klima zu bearbeiten. Neben in-situ Beobachtungen und hydrologischen Modellen eröffnen Satellitengravimetrie (GRACE) und Satellitenaltimetrie neue Möglichkeiten, die Hydrologie von großen Einzugsgebieten zu beobachten. Dies geschieht, im dem man mit diesen Fernerkundungsmethoden die Größe von Wasserspeichern in den Einzugsgebieten und Pegelstände entlang von Flüssen misst, die dann auf verschieden Arten in Abfluss umgerechnet werden können. Für Meereis-Ozeanmodelle bedeutet die Seltenheit von Abflussinformationen in der Arktis, dass der Jahresgang des Abflusses als stationär angenommen wird. In unserem Projekt werden wir diese Annahme aufheben und ein Meereis-Ozeanmodell benutzen, um den Einfluss von zeitlich variablem Abfluss auf die arktische Ozeanzirkulation und das Süßwasserbudget zu untersuchen. Das Hauptziel der Projektes ist es, die Reaktion von Meeresspiegel und Hydrographie in der Arktis auf Veränderungen des hydrologischen Regimes über borealen Einzugsgebieten abzuschätzen und zu quantifizieren. Die Projektziele tragen zur Strategie des Schwerpunktprogramms 1889 bei, indem 1)die Datensätze und Zeitreihen von hydrologischen Parametern über borealen Einzugsgebieten durch den Einsatz von geodätischen satellitengestützten Fernerkundungsmethoden (zeitliche auflösenden Gravimetrie, Satellitenaltimetrie) verbessert werden und lange und hochauflösende Zeitserien für alle großen Einzugsgebiete, die in den Arktische Ozean entleeren, erstellt werden. 2) Sensitivität von Meereis- und Ozeandynamik auf Veränderungen des Süßwasserantriebs (u.a. Abfluss) analysiert wird. 3) Modellergebnisse über Veränderungen des kontinentalen Abflusses verglichen werden mit seit 1990 beobachteter Variabilität von flüssigen Süßwassergehalt (und damit verbundenen sterischen Meeresspiegeländerungen) im Arktischen Ozean und im Nordatlantik. Nicht nur dienen diese Vergleiche der Modellbewertung, sondern sie unterstützen auch die Interpretation relativ seltener ozeangraphischer in-situ Beobachtungen.
Global change exposes brown algal Fucus vesiculosus populations to increasing temperature and pCO2, which may threaten individuals, in particular the early life-stages. Genetic diversity of F. vesiculosus populations is low in the Baltic compared to Atlantic populations. This might jeopardise their potential for adaptation to environmental changes. Here, we report on the responses of early life-stage F. vesiculosus to warming and acidification in a near-natural scenario maintaining natural and seasonal variation (spring 2013–2014) of the Kiel Fjord in the Baltic Sea, Germany (54°27ʹN, 10°11ʹW). We assessed how stress sensitivity differed among sibling groups and how genetic diversity of germling populations affected their stress tolerance. Warming increased growth rates of Fucus germlings in spring and in early summer, but led to higher photoinhibition in spring and decreased their survival in late summer. Acidification increased germlings' growth in summer but otherwise showed much weaker effects than warming. During the colder seasons (autumn and winter), growth was slow while survival was high compared to spring and summer, all at ambient temperatures. A pronounced variation in stress response among genetically different sibling groups (full-sib families) suggests a genotypic basis for this variation and thus a potential for adaptation for F. vesiculosus populations to future conditions. Corroborating this, survival in response to warming in populations with higher diversity was better than the mean survival of single sibling groups. We conclude that impacts on early life-stages depend on the combination of stressors and season and that genetic variation is crucial for the tolerance to global change stress.
This data publication contains maps resulting from spatial prioritisations conducted for the iAtlantic D5.3 report on Systematic Conservation Planning of the wider Atlantic Ocean based on results generated by the iAtlantic project. The maps were produced using the prioritizr R package (Hanson et al. 2023), which identifies priority areas for achieving specific conservation goals while minimising costs. The various prioritisations were developed to address multiple research questions related to: (1) identifying priority areas for conservation and restoration, (2) transboundary conservation, (3) climate-smart conservation planning, and (4) protecting 30% of the Atlantic Ocean, including 10% under strict protection. The results are organised into subfolders based on the research questions addressed and further categorised into data-rich and data-poor regions, along with aggregate results for each region. Further, the results are organised into subfolders representing multiple scenarios executed using various cost layers, including area-based, Global Fishing Watch (GFW, 2023) benthic, GFW total fishing, Global Fisheries Landings (GFL, Watson 2019) v4.0 benthic, and GFL v4.0 total landings. Each map filename provides descriptive information about the executed scenario.
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