Table 1 Location of experiments and environmental variables encountered during JR271 (June 2012) and JR274 (January–February 2013).

From: Biological nitrous oxide consumption in oxygenated waters of the high latitude Atlantic Ocean

Station

Latitude

Longitude

Depth (m)

Temp (°C)

NO3 (µM)

NH4+ (nM)

O2 (µM)

N2O concn. (nM)

N2O production (nMd−1)

N2O consumption (nMd−1)

Location

JR271

E01

56.267°N

02.633°E

10

8.50

0.02

4.2

311

10.7

ND

0.18

North Sea

50

6.70

0.65

44

269

11.5

2.97

3.13

E02

60.594°N

18.857°W

20

10.44

5.2

163

300

9.7

ND

0.23

South of Iceland

60

9.49

9.2

452

281

10.3

3.32

3.65

E03

76.175°N

02.549°W

19

1.55

9.3

67

361

12.2

ND

0.16

Greenland Sea

60

0.16

10.1

502

360

12.9

0.77

1.02

Ice-Edge

E04

78.353°N

03.664°W

10

−1.61

6.0

88

370

15.1

ND

0.31

Greenland Sea

40

−1.76

7.8

69

345

14.9

0.17

1.16

In-Ice

E05

72.892°N

26.001°E

9

6.47

5.8

76

320

10.4

ND

ND

Barents Sea

60

6.01

8.8

178

304 (†306)

10.4

1.81

1.79

JR274

B03

52.69°S

36.63°W

85

0.89

25.8

1196

320

(†323)

15.6

1.10

1.39

North of South Georgia

B04

58.08°S

25.93°W

46

−1.2

21.5

893

342

(†335)

15.8

0.58

0.70

East of S. Sandwich Islands

  1. ND not detected, † O2 concentration after 96 h of incubation, measurements at 0, 24, 48 and 96 h showed coefficient of variation of 1.1 and 1.4% for B03 and B04 respectively.