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AAR-bloom

Understanding the Massive Phytoplankton Blooms over the Australian-Antarctic Ridge
NSF-OPP Award # 2135184

Cruise NBP24-11 / Event: O-288-N:
• Tentative cruise dates: 13 December, 2024 - 03 February, 2025. Vessel: RVIB Nathaniel B. Palmer. Out of Lyttleton, New Zealand.

Data (some is password protected):
• Project Google Drive
• Satellite Images:
     Yesterday's images:
       - Wide View
       - Zoom View
     Rolling last 8 day binned images (like the one below):
       - Wide View
     Older images:
       Chlorophyll a (AQUA_MODIS)/ sea ice concentration:
            - Wide View - Monthly images
            - Wide View - Monthly images organized by month
            - Wide View - 8 Day images
            - Wide View - 8 Day images organized by 8 day period
            - Zoom View - Monthly images
            - Zoom View - Monthly images organized by month
            - Zoom View - 8 Day images
            - Zoom View - 8 Day images organized by 8 day period
       Chlorophyll a (MERGED)/ sea ice concentration:
            - Wide View - 1 Day images (see latest below)
            - Zoom View - 1 Day images
       Sea level anomaly (Copernicus)/ sea ice concentration:
            (note that ice underlays valid sla observations)
            - Wide View - Daily images
            - Wide View - Daily images organized by 1 day period
            - Wide View - Daily images (autoscaled Balleny region)
            - Wide View - Daily images organized by 1 day period (autoscaled Balleny region)
      Google Earth files (kmz)

Publications:
• Vanegas Ledesma, A., L. N. Thomas. 2024. Transport Pathways for Iron Supply to the Australian Antarctic Ridge Phytoplankton Bloom. Geophysical Research Letters 51(14). doi:10.1029/2023GL108001.
• Schine, C. M. S., J.-E. Lundstern, G. van Dijken, S. Sergi, K. R. Arrigo. Under Review. Earthquake activity and surface advection predict net primary production in a recurring bloom in the Southern Ocean.
• Schine, C., A.-C. Alderkamp, G. van Dijken, L. Gerringa, S. Sergi, P. Laan, H. van Haren, W. van de Poll, K. Arrigo. 2021. Massive Southern Ocean phytoplankton bloom fed by iron of possible hydrothermal origin. Nature Communications 12, 1211. doi:10.1038/s41467-021-21339-5.

  - - - Latest Rolling Last 8 Day Binned Chl a / Ice Combo - - -

  - - - AAR Bloom - February, 2010 - - -

  
  

  For help with this page contact Gert van Dijken
  Last updated: November 22, 2024