Autonomous Time Series Measurement of 14C Primary Production on the Bermuda Test Bed Mooring

利用两个时间序列潜水孵化装置（TS-SID），研究人员正在百慕大Testbd系泊上进行自主的高时间分辨率碳-14初级产量测量。这些测量寻求(1)BTM研究人员用于估计系泊生物光学测量初级产量的生物光学模型的地面真实性；(2)与基于百慕大大西洋时间序列研究（BATS）的初级产量测量进行头对头的比较，以确认TS-SID功能的长期准确性，并提供浮游植物对短期扰动的直接量化。TS-SID构成了该地区碳14初级产量的最高分辨率长期测量，可以解决时间混叠问题，以及低频研究如何很好地代表短期事件（如春季开花）。由此产生的数据将相互校准一个复合术语，其中包括最大量子产量和光谱加权浮游植物吸收系数-将生物光学测量的入射光和叶绿素生物量转化为产量估计值所必需的变量。

Using two Time Series - Submersible Incubation Devices (TS-SID), researchers are conducting autonomous high temporal resolution measurement of carbon-14 primary production on the Bermuda Testbd Mooring. These measurements seek (1) ground truthing of bio-optical models used by BTM investigators for estimating primary production from mooring bio-optical measurements, and (2) a head to head comparison with ship based Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) primary production measurements for confirming long term accuracy of TS-SID function, and providing direct quantification of phytoplankton response to short term perturbation. The TS-SID constitutes the highest resolution long term measurement of carbon-14 primary production made in this region, and can address issues of temporal aliasing and how well short term events (such as the spring bloom) are represented by the lower frequency study. Resulting data will intercalibrate a composite term encompassing maximum quantum yield and spectrally weighted phytoplankton absorption coefficient - variable necessary to translate bio-optically measured incident light and chlorophyll biomass into estimates of production.