Polarstern-Cruise ANTXXI/3 "EIFEX"

Cruise Track

Scientific Analysis

Modification by lateral mixing of the Winter Water trapped in an eddy

The warming of the Winter Water core by 0.15 K over the period of the EIFEX experiment allowed us to estimate the mixing coefficients (Hibbert et al. 2009).

EIFEX

This was the first iron fertilisation experiment which lasted long enough to see the organic matter produced exported to the deep ocean (Smetacek et al. 2012).

References

Hibbert, A., H. Leach, V. Strass and B. Cisewski, 2009, Mixing in Cyclonic Eddies in the Antarctic Circumpolar Current. Journal of Marine Research, 67, 1-23. DOI: 10.1357/002224009788597935.

Smetacek, Victor, Christine Klaas, Volker H. Strass, Philipp Assmy, Marina Montresor, Boris Cisewski, Nicolas Savoye, Adrian Webb, Francesco d’Ovidio, Jesús M. Arrieta, Ulrich Bathmann, Richard Bellerby, Gry Mine Berg, Peter Croot, Santiago Gonzalez, Joachim Henjes, Gerhard J. Herndl, Linn J. Hoffmann, Harry Leach, Martin Losch, Matthew M. Mills, Craig Neill, Ilka Peeken, Rüdiger Röttgers, Oliver Sachs, Eberhard Sauter, Maike M. Schmidt, Jill Schwarz, Anja Terbrüggen, & Dieter Wolf-Gladrow, 2012, Deep carbon export from a Southern Ocean iron-fertilized diatom bloom. Nature, 487, 313-319. doi: 10.1038/nature11229.

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