Year: 2016
Type: conference-paper
Abstract: The Gulf of Cadiz plays a key role in the exchanges of biogeochemical fluxes between the Mediterranean Sea and the Atlantic Ocean through the Strait of Gibraltar.Oceanographers have carried out many investigations in the Gulf of Cádiz on water mass circulation and mass balance of nutrients and carbon.However, despite its importance in the global ocean functioning, studies on trace metals in the waters of the Golf of Cádiz and the Strait of Gibraltar are very scarce, and for more than two decades ago, nonexistent.Here we show the result of dissolved trace metal composition (i.e.Ag, Cd, Co, Cu, Fe, Mo, Ni, Pb and Zn) in surface waters of the Gulf of Cádiz and Mediterranean Sea obtained from 5 oceanographic campaigns.Our results indicate that the surface water mass of the Gulf is receiving large amounts of trace metals transported by the different rivers that flow into the Gulf of Cadiz.Thus, dissolved trace metals in these waters were highly variable with the highest ranges measured for Co (0.06 -3.1 nM), Fe (0.6 -392 nM) and Pb (0.04 -512 nM).
Authors: Antonio Tovar‐Sánchez, David Sánchez-Quiles, David Roque, Antonio Cobelo-Garcı́a, Irene Laiz, R.F. Sánchez-Leal, Miguel Bruno
Language: English
Subfield: Oceanography
Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2934440668