Global mean ocean nitrate δ18O as a tracer for the supply and recycling of fixed nitrogen in the ocean

Simon Desmettre1, Cedric Dumoulin1, Violaine Coulon1, Dario Marconi2, Tanya Marshall2, Sofia Muller1, Yeongjun Ryu2, Tanja Wald3, Alfredo Martinez-Garcia4, Daniel Mikhail Sigman2 and Francois Fripat1, (1)Université Libre de Bruxelles, Brussel, Belgium, (2)Princeton University, Geosciences, Princeton, United States, (3)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Mainz, Germany, (4)Max Planck Institute for Chemistry, Climate Geochemistry, Mainz, Germany