Radium-traced nutrient outwelling from the Subei Shoal to the Yellow Sea:Fluxes and environmental implication  

作　　者：Jian’an Liu Dongyan Liu Jinzhou Du 

机构地区：[1]State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research,East China Normal University,Shanghai 200241,China

出　　处：《Acta Oceanologica Sinica》2022年第6期12-21,共10页海洋学报（英文版）

基　　金：The National Science and Technology Major Project of the Ministry of Science and Technology of China under contract No.2016YFC1402106;the National Natural Science Foundation of China under contract Nos 41376089,41576083,41976040,41876127 and 42030402;the China Postdoctoral Science Foundation under contract No.2020M671048。

摘　　要：The Subei Shoal is the largest sandy ridge in the southern Yellow Sea and is important source for nutrient loading to the sea.Here,the nutrient fluxes in the Subei Shoal associated with eddy diffusion and submarine groundwater discharge(SGD)were assessed to understand their impacts on the nutrient budget in the Yellow Sea.Based on the analysis of 223 Ra and 224 Ra in the field observation,the offshore eddy diffusivity mixing coefficient and SGD were estimated to be 2.3×10^(8)cm^(2)/s and 2.6×10^(9)m^(3)/d(16 cm/d),respectively,in the Subei Shoal.Combined the significant offshore decreasing gradients of nutrient in seawater of the Subei Shoal,the spatially integrated nutrient outwelling fluxes to the Yellow Sea were 262-1465μmol/(m^(2)·d)for DIN,5.2-21μmol/(m^(2)·d)for DIP and711-913μmol/(m^(2)·d)for DSi.Compared to the riverine input,atmospheric deposition and mariculture,nutrient outwelling from the Subei Shoal might play an important role in nutrient budget of the Yellow Sea.These nutrient fluxes could provide 4.1%-23%N and 1.3%-5.3%P requirements for the primary productivity,and the deviated DIN/DIP ratios have the potential to affect the growth of phytoplankton in the marine ecosystem of the Yellow Sea.

关 键 词：nutrient outwelling eddy diffusion submarine groundwater discharge radium isotopes Subei Shoal Yellow Sea 

分 类 号：P73[天文地球—海洋科学] X145[环境科学与工程—环境科学]