A zonal picture of the water column distribution of dissolved iron(II) during the U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic transect cruise (GEOTRACES GA03)

We report measurements of the transient species iron(II) in filtered water column samples collected during the U.S. GEOTRACES North Atlantic transect cruise (GEOTRACES GA03), which was comprised of legs from Lisbon to Cape Verde in October–November 2010, and from Woods Hole to Cape Verde in November–December 2011. Dissolved iron(II) (dFe(II)) was determined at sea in 0.2 µm filtered samples as soon as possible after collection and filtration, using flow injection analysis, with mean detection limits of 0.06 nM and 0.01 nM during the 2010 and 2011 cruise legs, respectively. Water column concentrations along the cruise transects were generally low (