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DEEP-SEA RESEARCH PART II-TOPICAL STUDIES IN OCEANOGRAPHY
Volume 57, Issue 16, Pages 1433-1445Publisher
PERGAMON-ELSEVIER SCIENCE LTD
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2010.02.013
Keywords
DOC; CFC; AOU; Carbon export; NADW
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Funding
- NSF [OCE-0752972, OCE02241614, OCE0648541]
- NASA [NNX09AL09G]
- [OCE-0223951]
- Directorate For Geosciences
- Division Of Ocean Sciences [752972] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
- NASA [113709, NNX09AL09G] Funding Source: Federal RePORTER
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Dissolved organic carbon (DOG) data are presented from three meridional transects conducted in the North Atlantic as part of the US Climate Variability (CLIVAR) Repeat Hydrography program in 2003. The hydrographic sections covered a latitudinal range of 6 degrees S to 63 degrees N along longitudes 20 degrees W (CLIVAR line A16), 52 degrees W (A20) and 66 degrees W (A22). Over 3700 individual measurements reveal unprecedented detail in the DOG distribution and systematic variations in the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones of the North Atlantic basin. Latitudinal gradients in DOG concentrations combined with published estimates of ventilation rates for the main thermocline and North Atlantic Deep Water (NADW) indicate a net DOC export rate of 0.081 Pg C yr(-1) from the epipelagic zone into the mesopelagic and bathypelagic zones. Model II regression and multiple linear regression models applied to pairwise measures of DOG and chlorofluorocarbon (CFC-12) ventilation age, retrieved from major water masses within the main thermocline and NADW, indicate decay rates for exported DOG ranging from 0.13 to 0.94 mu mol kg(-1) yr(-1), with higher DOG concentrations driving higher rates. The contribution of DOG oxidation to oxygen consumption ranged from 5 to 29% while mineralization of sinking biogenic particles drove the balance of the apparent oxygen utilization. (C) 2010 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved.
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