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Biogenic silica recycling in sea inferred from SI-isotopes : constraints from Arctic winter first-year sea ice

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Notz,  Dirk
Max Planck Research Group The Sea Ice in the Earth System, The Ocean in the Earth System, MPI for Meteorology, Max Planck Society;

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Fripiat, F., André, L., Notz, D., & DeLille, B. (2014). Biogenic silica recycling in sea inferred from SI-isotopes: constraints from Arctic winter first-year sea ice. Biogeochemistry, 119, 25-33. doi:10.1007/s10533-013-9911-8.


Cite as: https://hdl.handle.net/11858/00-001M-0000-0019-B962-3
Abstract
We report silicon isotopic composition (delta Si-30 vs. NBS28) in Arctic sea ice, based on sampling of silicic acid from both brine and seawater in a small Greenlandic bay in March 2010. Our measurements show that just before the productive period, delta Si-30 of sea-ice brine similar to delta Si-30 of the underlying seawater. Hence, there is no Si isotopic fractionation during sea-ice growth by physical processes such as brine convection. This finding brings credit and support to the conclusions of previous work on the impact of biogenic processes on sea ice delta Si-30: any delta Si-30 change results from a combination of biogenic silica production and dissolution. We use this insight to interpret data from an earlier study of sea-ice delta Si-30 in Antarctic pack ice that show a large accumulation of biogenic silica. Based on these data, we estimate a significant contribution of biogenic silica dissolution (D) to production (P), with a D:P ratio between 0.4 and 0.9. This finding has significant implications for the understanding and parameterization of the sea ice Si-biogeochemical cycle, i.e. previous studies assumed little or no biogenic silica dissolution in sea ice.