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Published October 6, 2015 | Published + Supplemental Material
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Estimating Oceanic Primary Production Using Vertical Irradiance and Chlorophyll Profiles from Ocean Gliders in the North Atlantic

Abstract

An autonomous underwater vehicle (Seaglider) has been used to estimate marine primary production (PP) using a combination of irradiance and fluorescence vertical profiles. This method provides estimates for depth-resolved and temporally evolving PP on fine spatial scales in the absence of ship-based calibrations. We describe techniques to correct for known issues associated with long autonomous deployments such as sensor calibration drift and fluorescence quenching. Comparisons were made between the Seaglider, stable isotope (^(13)C), and satellite estimates of PP. The Seaglider-based PP estimates were comparable to both satellite estimates and stable isotope measurements.

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© 2015 American Chemical Society. ACS AuthorChoice - This is an open access article published under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the author and source are cited. Received: February 3, 2015; Revised: August 24, 2015; Accepted: August 24, 2015; Published: August 24, 2015. Funding was provided by the Natural Environmental Research Council (NERC) through the Sensors on Gliders program GliSENEx (NE/J020184/1), the Ocean Surface Boundary Layer (OSMOSIS) project (NE/I020083/1), and NERC National Capability (cruises JC85, JC87). Additional funding was provided by EU Framework 7 project EuroBASIN (FP7-ENV-2010; cruise JC87) and the National Science Foundation (OCE1155676). We would like to thank the captains and crew aboard the RRS James Cook. ECMWF Operational Analyses were obtained by Tim Smyth from the British Atmospheric Data Centre. The authors thank the NERC Earth Observation Data Acquisition and Analysis Service (NEODAAS) for supplying data for this study. The authors declare no competing financial interest.

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