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In situ Measurements of the Characteristics of Suspended Particles in the Barents Sea by the LISST-Deep Laser Diffractometer

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The key indicators of marine sediment genesis are the particle size distribution (PSD) and volume concentration of suspended particulate matter (SPM). However, their study is not widespread in ship oceanology research. This paper reviews experience in using the LISST-Deep laser particle size analyzer for the study of marine SPM in situ. We present the first data on the volume concentration and PSD of SPM in the Barents Sea obtained during the 75th cruise of the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh in June 2019. We carried out an assessment of the adequacy of information display on the polydisperse system composition of the Barents Sea water body, which contains particles of a wide particle size spectrum of differing genesis and shape. This paper gives a regression and correlation analysis of LISST-Deep data with a Wet Labs turbidity meter and Multisizer 3 Coulter Counter, as well as the SPM mass concentration measured by the membrane filtration technique. All of them demonstrated reliable correlations between characteristics of SPM of the Barents Sea. Their correlation and determination coefficients varied from 0.6 to 0.8. The laser diffractometer produces more detailed vertical distributions of marine SPM parameters than does a turbidity meter, especially for euphotic zones. We found a significant correlation of LISST-Deep data with the concentration of dissolved oxygen, which increases for coarse–silty and sandy fractions (47.7–92.6 and 92.6–250 µm, respectively). Also, there is a correlation with SPM composition between parameters as organic carbon concentration and phytoplankton pigments. These correlations give some indirect indications of SPM composition from laser diffractometer measurements.

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ACKNOWLEDGMENTS

The authors are grateful to the Captain Y.N. Gorbach and the crew of the RV Akademik Mstislav Keldysh as well as S.Y. Lukashin, Y.A. Pronin, E.O. Zolotykh, and L.V. Demina—for their assistance in conducting research and A.P. Lisitzin for support of the work and useful discussion.

Funding

The expedition’s research was partially supported by the Russian Science Foundation, project no. 19-17-00234. Processing of the particle analyzer data was carried out with the financial support of the Russian Foundation for Basic Research (project no. 19-05-50 090) and data on SPM composition—the Russian Science Foundation (project no. 20-17-00157). The work was carried out within the framework of state assignment (subject no. 0149-2019-0007).

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    A. S. Lokhov, M. D. Kravchishina, A. A. Klyuvitkin & A. I. Kochenkova

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Lokhov, A.S., Kravchishina, M.D., Klyuvitkin, A.A. et al. In situ Measurements of the Characteristics of Suspended Particles in the Barents Sea by the LISST-Deep Laser Diffractometer. Oceanology 60, 650–663 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1134/S0001437020050148

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