Simulation analysis of moored fluorometer time series from the Mid-Atlantic Bight: Progress report for FY 1986-87

Technical Report · Thu Jan 01 04:00:00 EST 1987

OSTI ID:5466018

Walsh, J J

During FY 1986-87, a great deal of effort was devoted to synthesis of the results from the SEEP-I field experiment, conducted in 1983-1984, south of Martha's Vineyard and Long Island. As guest editor of a special SEEP-I volume of Continental Shelf Research, 20 manuscripts were reviewed and accepted for publication, of which three were written by the author. In summary, the component of the multidisciplinary SEEP-I program found from the 1984 time series of moored instruments that a seaward export of perhaps 0.20 mg chl m/sup -3/ day/sup -1/ evidently occurred at depths of 75 to 81 m, between the 80- and 120-m isobaths during February-April 1984. Using a C/chl ratio of 45/1, such a horizontal loss of algal carbon over the lower third of the water column would be 19 to 67% of the March-April 1984 primary production within the overlying euphotic zone.

• Research Organization: University of South Florida, St. Petersburg (USA). Dept. of Marine Science
• DOE Contract Number: FG05-85ER60285
• OSTI ID: 5466018
• Report Number(s): DOE/ER/60285-T1; ON: DE88006066
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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