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SCIENCE OF THE TOTAL ENVIRONMENT
Volume 719, Issue -, Pages -Publisher
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DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2019.134964
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Trace metals; Chemical oceanography; Lagrangian transport; Mediterranean Sea; Gulf of Cadiz; Guadalquivir River
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- Spanish Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovacion [CTM2014-59244-C3-3-R]
- CEI-MAR
- Portuguese Fundacao para a Ciencia e a Tecnologia (FCT) [SFRH/BPD/99444/2014, SFRH/BPD/100720/2014]
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The GoC shelf waters present much higher concentrations of dissolved Cu, Cd, and Zn than other coastal areas, constituting an important source of these elements onto its neighbouring basins, i.e., the Atlantic Ocean and the Mediterranean Sea. In this study we assessed the role of the GoC surface currents in the trace metals transport. For this purpose, ten dissolved (<0.22 mu m) trace metals were sampled (Ag, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, Mo, Ni, Pb, Zn, V) along the GoC continental shelf, and their spatial and temporal distribution was interpreted according to the surface circulation. Results show that the complex surface circulation over the shelf confines the metals concentration mainly along the inner shelf and determines their transport patterns: under southeastward currents, Cd, Co, Cu, Ni, and Pb are transported toward the Mediterranean Sea; under northwestward countercurrents, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, Ni, and Zn are transported toward the southern and, occasionally, the western Portuguese shelf; under variable currents, Ag, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, Pb, and Zn tend to accumulate near their source. Considering that some of these metals have not been analysed before in this region (Ag, Mo, V), or that the spatial distribution of certain metals (Ag, Fe, Mo, Pb, V) has not been interpreted in terms of the ocean circulation, this work could be considered as a baseline study for future comparisons. (C) 2019 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.
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