Empirical algorithms are developed using high-quality GO-SHIP hydrographic measurements of commonly measured parameters (temperature, salinity, pressure, nitrate, and oxygen) that estimate pH in the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean. The coefficients of determination, R-2, are 0.98 for pH from nitrate (pH(N)) and 0.97 for pH from oxygen (pH(Ox)) with RMS errors of 0.010 and 0.008, respectively. These algorithms are applied to Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observations and Modeling (SOCCOM) biogeochemical profiling floats, which include novel sensors (pH, nitrate, oxygen, fluorescence, and backscatter). These algorithms are used to estimate pH on floats with no pH sensors and to validate and adjust pH sensor data from floats with pH sensors. The adjusted float data provide, for the first time, seasonal cycles in surface pH on weekly resolution that range from 0.05 to 0.08 on weekly resolution for the Pacific sector of the Southern Ocean.
2016 | Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 132, 68-89.
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We use multivariate output from a hydrodynamic model of the Gulf of Alaska (GOA) to explore the covariance among its physical state and air/sea fluxes...
Evidence of ocean acidification (OA) throughout the global ocean has galvanized some coastal communities to evaluate carbonate chemistry variations cl...
2017 | Global Biogeochemical Cycles, 31(3), 591-604.
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More than 74 biogeochemical profiling floats that measure water column pH, oxygen, nitrate, fluorescence, and backscattering at 10 day intervals have ...
2016 | Geophysical Research Letters, 43(6), 2765-2772.
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The oceans hold a massive quantity of organic carbon, nearly all of which is dissolved and more than 95% is refractory, cycling through the oceans sev...
One of the major challenges to assessing the impact of ocean acidification on marine life is detecting and interpreting long-term change in the contex...
2016 | Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 132, 6-23.
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During 2011 and 2013, an integrated,ecosystem study was undertaken on the Southeast Alaska shelf and slope. As part of that study, a total of 8 moorin...
Cobalt is a nutrient to phytoplankton, but knowledge about its biogeochemical cycling is limited, especially in the Pacific Ocean. Here, we report sec...
2016 | Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 132, 24-40.
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The Alaska Coastal Current is a continuous, well-defined system extending for 1700 km along the coast of Alaska from Seward, Alaska to Samalga Pass in...
2016 | Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 121(3), 1755-1770.
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During the late summer, phytoplankton in the northeastern Chukchi Sea are typically found in subsurface layers. These layers and their sensitivity to ...
The residual hydrothermalism associated with submarine volcanoes, following an eruption event, plays an important role in the supply of CO2 to the oce...
2016 | Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 121(6), 3730-3740.
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Time-depth variations of the equatorial currents over the upper 1000 m depth in the western Pacific Ocean were directly measured by acoustic Doppler c...
2017 | Journal of Geophysical Research-Oceans, 122(2), 973-979.
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South Atlantic Ocean middepth water property (temperature, salinity, oxygen, nutrients, etc.) distributions are set by salty, well-ventilated, and rel...
There were extensive regions of Arctic temperature extremes in January and February 2016 that continued into April. For January, the Arctic-wide avera...
Seafloor hydrothermal polymetallic sulfide deposits are a new type of resource, with great potential economic value and good prospect development. Thi...
Tidal oscillations of venting temperature and chlorinity have been observed in the long-term time series data recorded by the Benthic and Resistivity ...
2016 | Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 132, 54-67.
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Frequent gap winds, defined here as offshore-directed flow channeled through mountain gaps, have been observed near Kodiak Island in the Gulf of Alask...
2016 | Deep-Sea Research Part Ii-Topical Studies in Oceanography, 132, 41-53.
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Gap-wind events flowing from Cross Sound in the eastern Gulf of Alaska (GOA) were examined using QuikSCAT wind data. The average duration of an event ...
2016 | Journal of Waterway Port Coastal and Ocean Engineering, 142(5), 16.
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During tsunami inundation, coastal structures are subject to hydrostatic and hydrodynamic forces from the run-up and rundown and to impact forces from...
2016 | Journal of Geophysical Research-Atmospheres, 121(9), 4751-4768.
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A characterization of black carbon (BC) and other light-absorbing particles in snow is presented for three mountain valley sites in Idaho in early 201...
Resource managers at the state, federal, and tribal levels make decisions on a weekly to quarterly basis, and fishers operate on a similar timeframe. ...
We introduce three new Empirical Seawater Property Estimation Routines (ESPERs) capable of predicting seawater phosphate, nitrate, silicate, oxygen, t...
Purpose of Review We summarize recent progress on autonomous observations of ocean carbonate chemistry and the development of a network of sensors cap...
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