Abstract:
Submarine groundwater discharge(SGD) has been recognized as an important pathway for nutrients into ocean and plays an important role in global water cycle.In this study, seawater and groundwater samples were collected from the coast of Shengsi Island, Zhejiang Province and radium isotopes (
223Ra,
224 Ra,
228 Ra) and nutrients were analyzed in the lab.Then SGD and its derived nutrients fluxes were estimated.The results showed that Radium activities in groundwater (
223Ra:16.7 ±2.9 dpm/100 L,
224Ra:479 ±18 dpm/100 L,
228Ra:97 ±4 dpm/100 L) were much higher than those in seawater (
223Ra:3.5 ±0.7 dpm/100 L,
224Ra:80 ±4 dpm/100 L,
228Ra:31±2 dpm/100 L).Moreover, the tidal-drived SGD rate were calculated to be 7.6 and 4.1 cm/d based on
223Ra and
224Ra, respectively.However, according to the decay of
223Ra with distance offshore, a SGD flux of 22 cm/d was derived.Based on SGD flux, the flux of dissolved inorganic nitrogen (DIN), dissolved inorganic phosphorous (DIP) and dissolved silicon (DSi) were calculated to be 593, 4.16 and 241 μmol/(m
2·s), respectively.