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JOURNAL OF OCEANOGRAPHY
Volume 74, Issue 4, Pages 367-379Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s10872-018-0468-y
Keywords
Iron supply; Chemical substances; Hydrographic data; Upwelling; Resuspension of sediments; Shelf break; Continental slope; Kuroshio; Okinawa Trough; East China Sea
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- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology, Japan [22510001]
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [22510001] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We studied the behavior of chemical substances in the upper 300 m of the water column across the continental shelf-slope interface in the East China Sea off the Okinawa Trough. The behaviors of iron, inorganic nutrients, and humic-like fluorescent dissolved organic matter were strongly influenced by the extensive water exchange between the East China Sea and the Kuroshio Current across the shelf break and slope via upwelling and frontal processes. We attributed the high humic-like fluorescent intensity at the subsurface of the shelf break and slope regions to the lateral supply of humic-like fluorescent dissolved organic matter from the shelf sediments to the outer shelf region due to the intrusion of shelf water into Kuroshio subsurface water. We found that the behavior of iron at the continental shelf-slope was remarkably different from the conservative mixing of inorganic nutrients and humic-like fluorescent dissolved organic matter. In deep and bottom waters at the shelf-slope, high total iron concentrations, which were closely related to water transmittance, possibly resulted from the swept transport of iron-rich resuspended sediments over the shelf floor from the slope by the invading Kuroshio Intermediate Water close to the bottom.
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