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GEOPHYSICAL RESEARCH LETTERS
Volume 41, Issue 13, Pages 4619-4627Publisher
AMER GEOPHYSICAL UNION
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL060308
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- NERC [NE/E006833/1]
- EU (CalMarO) [215157]
- NERC [NE/E006833/1, noc010009] Funding Source: UKRI
- Natural Environment Research Council [noc010009, NE/E006833/1] Funding Source: researchfish
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Estimates of the amount of carbon sequestered in the ocean interior per unit iron (Fe) supplied, as quantified by the sequestration efficiency (C-effx), vary widely. Such variability in C-effx has frequently been attributed to estimate uncertainty rather than intrinsic variability. Here we derive new estimates of C-effx for the subpolar North Atlantic, where Fe stressed conditions have recently been demonstrated. Derived values of C-effx from across the region, including areas subject to atypical external Fe fertilization events during the year of sample collection (2010), ranged from 17 to 19 kmol C (mol Fe-1). Comparing these estimates with values from other systems, considered in the context of variable bloom durations in the different oceanographic settings, we suggest that apparent variability in C-effx may be related to the mode of Fe delivery.
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