Articles | Volume 18, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-1245-2022
https://doi.org/10.5194/os-18-1245-2022
Research article
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30 Aug 2022
Research article |  | 30 Aug 2022

Net community production in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea from glider and buoy measurements

Michael P. Hemming, Jan Kaiser, Jacqueline Boutin, Liliane Merlivat, Karen J. Heywood, Dorothee C. E. Bakker, Gareth A. Lee, Marcos Cobas García, David Antoine, and Kiminori Shitashima

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Deployment of UEA Seaglider sg537 ('Fin') near the Boussole time series site (Mediterranean Sea) with pH/p(CO2) ISFET sensor testing, March-April 2016 J. Kaiser and M. P. Hemming https://doi.org/10.5285/e686816f-8bdd-4782-e053-6c86abc07adc

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An underwater glider mission was carried out in spring 2016 near a mooring in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea. The glider deployment served as a test of a prototype ion-sensitive field-effect transistor pH sensor. Mean net community production rates were estimated from glider and buoy measurements of dissolved oxygen and inorganic carbon concentrations before and during the spring bloom. Incorporating advection is important for accurate mass budgets. Unexpected metabolic quotients were found.