Primary production: Sensitivity to surface irradiance and implications for archiving data
An equation is derived to express the sensitivity of daily, watercolumn production by phytoplankton in the ocean to variations in irradiance at the sea surface. Assuming no spectral effects, and a vertically uniform chlorophyll profile, the sensitivity is a function only of the dimensionless irradia...
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Frontiers Media
2017
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| author | Platt, T Sathyendranath, S White, G Jackson, T Picart, S Bouman, H |
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| description | An equation is derived to express the sensitivity of daily, watercolumn production by phytoplankton in the ocean to variations in irradiance at the sea surface. Assuming no spectral effects, and a vertically uniform chlorophyll profile, the sensitivity is a function only of the dimensionless irradiance. Spectral effects can be accounted for as a function of the chlorophyll concentration. At the global scale, the relative reduction in daily production consequent on halving the surface irradiance (representing the expected scope for variation in surface irradiance under natural conditions) is found to be from 30 to 40%. Choice of data source for irradiance may incur a further systematic error of up to 15%. Given that local irradiance (the principal forcing for primary production) may vary from day to day, the issue of how to archive production data for the most generality is discussed and recommendations made in this regard. |
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| spelling | oxford-uuid:0884f6eb-ee45-402a-83db-d59d3f2887582022-03-26T09:13:17ZPrimary production: Sensitivity to surface irradiance and implications for archiving dataJournal articlehttp://purl.org/coar/resource_type/c_dcae04bcuuid:0884f6eb-ee45-402a-83db-d59d3f288758Symplectic Elements at OxfordFrontiers Media2017Platt, TSathyendranath, SWhite, GJackson, TPicart, SBouman, HAn equation is derived to express the sensitivity of daily, watercolumn production by phytoplankton in the ocean to variations in irradiance at the sea surface. Assuming no spectral effects, and a vertically uniform chlorophyll profile, the sensitivity is a function only of the dimensionless irradiance. Spectral effects can be accounted for as a function of the chlorophyll concentration. At the global scale, the relative reduction in daily production consequent on halving the surface irradiance (representing the expected scope for variation in surface irradiance under natural conditions) is found to be from 30 to 40%. Choice of data source for irradiance may incur a further systematic error of up to 15%. Given that local irradiance (the principal forcing for primary production) may vary from day to day, the issue of how to archive production data for the most generality is discussed and recommendations made in this regard. |
| spellingShingle | Platt, T Sathyendranath, S White, G Jackson, T Picart, S Bouman, H Primary production: Sensitivity to surface irradiance and implications for archiving data |
| title | Primary production: Sensitivity to surface irradiance and implications for archiving data |
| title_full | Primary production: Sensitivity to surface irradiance and implications for archiving data |
| title_fullStr | Primary production: Sensitivity to surface irradiance and implications for archiving data |
| title_full_unstemmed | Primary production: Sensitivity to surface irradiance and implications for archiving data |
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