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Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-287-2019
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https://doi.org/10.5194/esd-10-287-2019
© Author(s) 2019. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 License.
Articles | Volume 10, issue 2
Research article
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26 Apr 2019
Research article |  | 26 Apr 2019

Tidal impacts on primary production in the North Sea

Changjin Zhao, Ute Daewel, and Corinna Schrum

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Our study highlights the importance of tides in controlling the spatial and temporal distributions North Sea primary production based on numerical experiments. We identified two different response chains acting in different regions of the North Sea. (i) In the southern shallow areas, strong tidal mixing dilutes phytoplankton concentrations and increases turbidity, thus decreasing NPP. (ii) In the frontal regions, tidal mixing infuses nutrients into the surface mixed layer, thus increasing NPP.
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