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JOURNAL OF OCEANOGRAPHY
卷 60, 期 1, 页码 53-62出版社
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOCE.0000038318.38916.e6
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export production; carbon cycle; modeling; nutrients; oxygen
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A global ocean inverse model that includes the 3D ocean circulation as well as the production, sinking and remineralization of biogenic particulate matter is used to estimate the carbon export flux in the Pacific, north of 10degreesS. The model exploits the existing large datasets for hydrographic parameters, dissolved oxygen, nutrients and carbon, and determines optimal export production rates by fitting the model to the observed water column distributions by means of the adjoint method. In the model, the observations can be explained satisfactorily with an integrated carbon export production of about 3 Gt C yr(-1) (equivalent to 3.10(15) gC yr(-1)) for the considered zone of the Pacific Ocean. This amounts to about a third of the global ocean carbon export of 9.6 Gt C yr(-1) in the model. The highest export fluxes occur in the coastal upwelling region off northwestern America and in the tropical eastern Pacific. Due to the large surface area, the open-ocean, oligotrophic region in the central North Pacific also contributes significantly to the total North Pacific export flux (0.45 Gt C yr(-1)), despite the rather small average flux densities in this region (13 gC m(-2) yr(-1)). Model eratios (calculated here as ratios of model export production to primary production, as inferred from satellite observations) range from as high a value as 0.4 in the tropical Pacific to 0.17 in the oligotrophic central north Pacific. Model e-ratios in the northeastern Pacific upwelling regions amount to about 0.3 and are lower than previous estimates.
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