The dynamic ocean biological pump: Insights from a global compilation of particulate organic carbon, CaCO 3, and opal concentration profiles from the mesopelagic

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 25, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Lam, Phoebe J ^a   Doney, Scott C ^a   Bishop, James K B ^b  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION LENGTHS; BIOLOGICAL PUMPS; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONCENTRATION PROFILES; EXPORT PRODUCTION; GLOBAL DATA; IN-SITU; IRON FERTILIZATION; MESOPELAGIC; NEAR-SURFACE; OPEN OCEAN; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; TRANSFER EFFICIENCY;

BLOOMS (METAL); CALCIUM CARBONATE; EFFICIENCY; OCEAN HABITATS; ORGANIC CARBON;

BIOFILTRATION;

BIOLOGICAL PUMP; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CELL ORGANELLE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DATA SET; FILTRATION; IN SITU TEST; PARADIGM SHIFT; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; VOLUME;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 79960817643     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB003868     Document Type: Article

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