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来自北极大陆架的物质正在改变海水的组成

Increased fluxes of shelf-derived materials to the central Arctic Ocean

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American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS)

Materials from Arctic Shelves are Changing the Water's Composition

image: The USCGC Healy, hosting the US GEOTRACES expedition, and the RIB Polarstern, hosting the German GEOTRACES expedition, met at the North Pole on Sept. 7, 2015. A total of three GEOTRACES expeditions (the third a Canadian cruise on the CCGS Amundsen, not pictured) were conducted in the summer of 2015; this coordinated international effort will provide a more complete understanding of the chemistry of the Arctic Ocean as a whole. view more 

Credit: S. Hendricks

来自北极大陆架的物质正在改变海水的组成:科学家们说,在过去的10年中,源自大陆架的物质向北冰洋中部的输入看来正在增加。他们进一步指出,这一增加正在改变北冰洋海水的组成,它可能会对生物生产力和物种聚合造成威胁。他们的结果为北极大陆架物质流动提供了首批估测之一,为该地区未得到充分研究的物质转运过程提供了重要的线索。这一区域的沉积物与海水的交换会受到永久冻土解冻、河流排放及海岸侵蚀等变化的影响,它们都在因应北极温度的快速上升而在不断改变。为了决定北极大陆架沉积物的输入情况,Lauren E. Kipp和同事对镭同位素的分布进行了检测;镭同位素会在海水中留下其独特的同位素印记。2015年,他们在从分布在楚科奇架到北极的69个观测站获得了表层水样本。作者将其数据与Rutgers van der Loeff等的2007年的一项研究进行了比较,他们发现,在2007年至2015年间,表层水中的镭-228(228RA)浓度剧增。基于这些发现,Kipp等提出,228RA向北冰洋表层水的输入目前不会处于稳态,营养素、碳的深度增加和痕量金属平衡正在发生。尽管这两个数据集不能结论性地确定驱动大陆架物质输入增加的机制,但这一研究可作为对未来北极大陆架-海盆交换研究的一个基线。研究人员提出,对大陆架向北冰洋表层水输入的持续监测或能让人们更好地了解气候变化如何影响北冰洋的化学和生物学。

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"Increased fluxes of shelf-derived materials to the central Arctic Ocean," by L.E. Kipp; M.A. Charette; P.B. Henderson at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Woods Hole, MA; L.E. Kipp at Massachusetts Institute of Technology–Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution Joint Program in Oceanography/Applied Ocean Science and Engineering in Woods Hole, MA; W.S. Moore at University of South Carolina in Columbia, SC; I.G. Rigor at University of Washington in Seattle, WA.

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