Sea surface salinity (SSS) is the least constrained major variable of the past (paleo) ocean but is fundamental in controlling the density of seawater and thus large-scale ocean circulation. The hydrogen isotopic composition (δD) of non-exchangeable hydrogen of algal lipids, specifically alkenones, has been proposed as a promising new proxy for paleo SSS. The δD of surface seawater is correlated with SSS, and laboratory culture studies have shown the δD of algal growth water to be reflected in the δD of alkenones. However, a large-scale field study testing the validity of this proxy is still lacking. Here we present the δD of open-ocean Atlantic and Pacific surface waters and coincident δD of alkenones sampled by underway filtration. Two transects of approximately 100° latitude in the Atlantic Ocean and more than 50° latitude in the Western Pacific sample much of the range of open ocean salinities and seawater δD, and thus allow probing the relationship between δD of seawater and alkenones. Overall, the open ocean δD alkenone data correlate significantly with SSS, and also agree remarkably well with δD water vs δD alkenone regressions developed from culture studies. Subtle deviations from these regressions are discussed in the context of physiological factors as recorded in the carbon isotopic composition of alkenones. In a best-case scenario, the data presented here suggest that SSS variations as low as 1.2 can be reconstructed from alkenone δD.
Gesaettigte Kohlenwasserstoffe ebenso wie Alkylaromaten werden bei Anwesenheit von Sauerstoff und geeigneten Sensibilisatoren (aromatische Ketone, Chinone) durch natuerliches Sonnenlicht zu Carbonylverbindungen abgebaut. Durch Modelluntersuchungen unter quasi-natuerlichen Bedingungen wurde gefunden, dass durch Kettenfragmentierung homologe Reihen entstehen, deren niedermolekulare Glieder Aceton, Acetaldehyd und Formaldehyd die hoeheren Homologen hinsichtlich ihrer Konzentration ueberwiegen. Zur Anreicherung hoeherer Homologen aus Meerwasser werden Sorptionsharze verwendet. Die Analytik stuetzt sich auf chromatographische Methoden und Massenspektrometrie. Fuer quantitative Untersuchungen wird als Reaktionsmedium steril-filtriertes Meerwasser benutzt, welches man nach Zugabe geringer Mengen des zu untersuchenden Kohlenwasserstoffes knapp unterhalb der Meeresoberflaeche natuerlichem Sonnenlicht aussetzt. Da bei sensibilisierten Reaktionen in verduennten, waessrigen Loesungen der molekulare Extinktionskoeffizient, welcher zur Bestimmung der Quantenausbeute erforderlich ist, schwer zu bestimmen ist, wird die Absorption des Substrates durch chemische Actinometer (p-Nitroacetophenon/Pyridin) ermittelt.
The North Atlantic Waveguide and Downstream Impact Experiment (NAWDEX) aims to provide the foundation for future improvements in the prediction of high impact weather events over Europe. The concept for the field experiment emerged from the WMO THORPEX program and contributes to the World Weather Research Program WWRP in general and to the High Impact Weather (HIWeather) project in particular. An international consortium from the US, UK, France, Switzerland and Germany has applied for funding of a multi-aircraft campaign supported by enhanced surface observations, over the North Atlantic and European region. The importance of accurate weather predictions to society is increasing due to increasing vulnerability to high impact weather events, and increasing economic impacts of weather, for example in renewable energy. At the same time numerical weather prediction has undergone a revolution in recent years, with the widespread use of ensemble predictions that attempt to represent forecast uncertainty. This represents a new scientific challenge because error growth and uncertainty are largest in regions influenced by latent heat release or other diabatic processes. These regions are characterized by small-scale structures that are poorly represented by the operational observing system, but are accessible to modern airborne remote-sensing instruments. HALO will play a central role in NAWDEX due to the unique capabilities provided by its long range and advanced instrumentation. With coordinated flights over a period of days, it will be possible to sample the moist inflow of subtropical air into a cyclone, the ascent and outflow of the warm conveyor belt, and the dynamic and thermodynamic properties of the downstream ridge. NAWDEX will use the proven instrument payload from the NARVAL campaign which combines water vapor lidar and cloud radar, supplemented by dropsondes, to allow these regions to be measured with unprecedented detail and precision. HALO operations will be supported by the DLR Falcon aircraft that will be instrumented with wind lidar systems, providing synergetic measurements of dynamical structures. These measurements will allow the first closely targeted evaluation of the quality of the operational observing and analysis systems in these crucial regions for forecast error growth. They will provide detailed knowledge of the physical processes acting in these regions and especially of the mechanisms responsible for rapid error growth in mid-latitude weather systems. This will provide the foundation for a better representation of uncertainty in numerical weather predictions systems, and better (probabilistic) forecasts.
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.
Die Öffnung im frühen Neogen und anschließende Verbreiterung und Vertiefung der Fram-Straße, der einzigen Tiefenwasserverbindung zwischen Arktischem und Atlantischem Ozean, stellt ein grundlegendes tektonisches Ereignis dar, das weitreichende Konsequenzen fuer die globale Ozeanzirkulation und die Klimaentwicklung sowie fuer Sedimentationsprozesse in den angrenzenden Ozeanbecken und entlang der Kontinentalränder hatte. Die entstandenen Sedimentarchive erlauben es in der Kombination von seismischen Kartierungen mit stratigraphischen Untersuchungen an existierenden DSDP/ODP-Bohrkernen, Rueckschluesse auf die Entwicklungsgeschichte dieser tiefen Meeresstrasse auf tektonischen Zeitskalen (100.000-1.000.000 Jahre) zu ziehen. Die seismostratigraphische Untersuchung von sedimentären Strukturen anhand teilweise neu zu bearbeitender reflexionsseismischer Profile in der Fram-Straße und den Antragstellern neu zugänglich gemachter externer Daten von den angrenzenden bzw. konjugierten Kontinentalrändern von Grönland und Norwegen (Daten von BGR, NPD, GEUS) stellt somit wertvolle Informationen ueber die regionale tektonische, ozeanographische und klimatische Entwicklung bereit, u.a der Vereisungsgeschichte der nördlichen Hemisphäre. Unser Ziel ist es, aus den Reflexionsmustern und internen Sedimentstrukturen seismischer Profile auf die Ablagerungsmechanismen zu schließen, um damit wiederum tektonische Prozesse sowie Veränderungen der ozeanischen Zirkulation in der Fram-Straße zu rekonstruieren. Einen wesentlichen Beitrag dazu leisten veröffentlichte und geplante Überarbeitungen der Chronostratigraphie der DSDP/ODP-Bohrkerne der Lokationen 343, 642/643, 909, 910, 912 und 913, die eine Datierung der seismischen Grenzflächen (Reflektoren) und eine sedimentologische Charakterisierung der seismischen Einheiten ermöglichen.
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).
NCEI's global ocean sediment thickness grid of Divins (2003) updated by Whittaker et al. (2013) has been updated again for the NE Atlantic, Arctic, Southern Ocean, and Mediterranean regions. The new global 5‐arc‐minute total sediment thickness grid, GlobSed, incorporates new data and several regional oceanic sediment thickness maps, which have been compiled and published for the, (1) NE Atlantic (Funck et al., 2017; Hopper et al., 2014), (2) Mediterranean (Molinari & Morelli, 2011), (3) Arctic (Petrov et al., 2016), (4) Weddell Sea (Huang et al., 2014), and (5) the Ross Sea, Amundsen Sea, and Bellingshausen Sea sectors off West Antarctica (Lindeque et al., 2016; Wobbe et al., 2014). This version also includes updates in the White Sea region based on the VSEGEI map of Orlov and Fedorov (2001). GlobSed covers a larger area than NCEI's previous global grids (Divins, 2003; Whittaker et al. 2013), and the new updates results in a 29.7% increase in estimated total oceanic sediment volume. This dataset has been archived in the framework of the PANGAEA US data rescue initiative 2025.
This data set presents the results of an automated cluster analysis using Gaussian mixture models of the entire Atlantic seafloor environment. The analysis was based on eight global datasets and their derivatives: Bathymetry, slope, terrain ruggedness index, topographic position index, sediment thickness, POC flux, salinity, dissolved oxygen, temperature, current velocity, and phytoplankton abundance in surface waters along with seasonal variabilities (see Source data set). We obtained nine seabed areas (SBAs) that portray the Atlantic seafloor that are shown as polygons in the data set. The attribute table holds short descriptions of each SBA as well as about the colours used in the accompanying paper publication. Data sets like this can be used for further analysis like e.g. for landscape ecology metrics to identify regions of interest. The compressed file further contains a style file that can be used to directly load the correct style in the QGIS software package.
This dataset presents salinity-normalized dissolved major element (Ca, Mg, K, Sr, Li) concentrations in the western Atlantic Ocean and the Arctic Ocean. Atlantic samples were collected along the western meridional GEOTRACES section GA02 comprised of cruises JR057 (Punta Arenas (Chile) 02-03-2011 to Las Palmas (Spain) 06-04-2011 ), PE321 (Bermuda 11-06-2010 to Fortaleza (Brazil) 08-07-2010), PE319 (Scrabster 28-04-2010 to Bermuda 25-05-2010), and PE358 (Reykjavik (Iceland) 29-07-2012 to Texel (Netherlands) 19-08-2012). Samples for dissolved major ions were sub-sampled from trace metal sample collection stored at the Royal Netherlands Institute for Sea Research (NIOZ). Samples for the Arctic Ocean were collected on BODC cruise JR271 (Immingham 01-06-2012 to Reykjavik 02-07-2012). Samples were analysed for Na, Ca, Mg, K, Li and Sr using a Varian-720 ES ICP-OES. Samples were diluted by a factor of 78-82 in 0.12 M HCl to the same final salinity. Multiple spectral lines were selected for each element, and samples were corrected for instrumental drift by sample-standard bracketing with IAPSO P157 diluted to the same final salinity. Calibration was performed on 7 dilutions of IAPSO P157. Element-to-sodium ratios were calculated for all combinations of spectral lines. Assuming a constant Na-to-salinity (PSU)=35 ratio, the element/Na ratios were multiplied by 0.46847 µmol kg-1 to obtain the salinity (PSU)-normalized element concentration, and by the ratio of practical to absolute salinity (TEOS-10). The TEOS-10 absolute salinities were calculated from EOS-80 values using the Gibb's Oceanographic Toolbox using the R package 'gsw' (v 1.1-1).
Die Halacaridae (Meeresmilben) gehören, mit ihrer Körpergröße von 200-500 mym, zum Meiobenthos. Unter den Milben sind sie die einzigen, die vollständig an ein Leben im Meer angepasst sind; sie besiedeln den Bereich von der oberen Gezeitenlinie bis in die Tiefseegräben. Zur Zeit sind etwa 900 Arten bekannt. Im Vergleich zu den Küsten im Osten und Westen des Nordatlantiks zeichnen sich die Australiens durch eine äußerst artenreiche Halacaridenfauna aus: jede geographische Region entlang der Küste scheint in erster Linie eigene Arten zu beherbergen. Die geplanten Probennahmen bei Dampier an der tropischen Nordwestküste Australiens sollen Daten liefern für einen Vergleich mit den bereits bearbeiteten Faunen von Rottnest Island (Südwestaustralien) und dem Great Barrier Reef (Ostaustralien).
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