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Modulation of the North Atlantic deoxygenation by the slowdown of the nutrient stream

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  • Journal Title:
    Biogeosciences
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    Western boundary currents act as transport pathways for nutrient-rich waters from low to high latitudes (nutrient streams) and are responsible for maintaining midlatitude and high-latitude productivity in the North Atlantic and North Pacific. This study investigates the centennial oxygen (O2) and nutrient changes over the Northern Hemisphere in the context of the projected warming and general weakening of the Atlantic Meridional Overturning Circulation (AMOC) in a subset of Earth system models included in the CMIP5 catalogue. In all models examined, the Atlantic warms faster than the Pacific Ocean, resulting in a greater basin-scale solubility decrease. However, this thermodynamic tendency is compensated by changes in the biologically driven O2 consumption which dominates the overall O2 budget. These changes are linked to the slowdown of the nutrient stream in this basin, in response to the AMOC weakening. The North Atlantic resists the warming-induced deoxygenation due to the weakened biological carbon export and remineralization, leading to higher O2 levels. Conversely, the projected nutrient stream and macronutrient inventory in the North Pacific remain nearly unchanged.
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    Biogeosciences, 17(1), 231-244
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    Journal Article
  • Funding:
    Grant no. NA16OAR4310173
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    Atlantic Ocean
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    CC BY
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    urn:sha256:aca93f9308a7a866c72f3b09676c28bf0916eb22096f8640814c55ddb3f82c2b
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