An observation of primary production enhanced by coastal upwelling in the southwest East/Japan Sea
2019
Abstract Coastal upwelling (CU) is an important process that causes changes in physical and chemical properties, resulting in variation of biological processes in a coastal area. In the southwestern part of the East/Japan Sea (SWES), CU has been alleged as one of the mechanisms responsible for higher net primary production (NPP) than the rest of the East/Japan Sea. We provide, for the first time, high spatial resolution underway observations of sea surface temperature, salinity, chlorophyll- a fluorescence and Δ(O 2 /Ar), revealing the physical and biological characteristics of the upwelled waters in the SWES. The cold, upwelled waters retained high fluorescence and Δ(O 2 /Ar), consistent with enhanced phytoplankton biomass and biological O 2 production by CU. The net community production (NCP) in the ambient and upwelled waters were 33 ± 19 and 77 ± 41 mmol O 2 m −2 d −1 , respectively. The latter should be considered as a lower bound, containing a significant fraction of low O 2 waters from subsurface. Satellite observation indicated that NPP in the upwelled waters were higher than the ambient waters by 51%. This implies that up to half of higher NPP in the SWES than the rest of the East/Japan Sea can be ascribed to CU events.
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