Publication Date:
2022-05-26
Description:
Author Posting. © Oceanography Society, 2009. This article is posted here by permission of Oceanography Society for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Oceanography 22 no. 4 (2009): 202-211.
Description:
Containing as much carbon as the atmosphere, marine dissolved
organic matter is one of Earth’s major carbon reservoirs. With invigoration of
scientific inquiries into the global carbon cycle, our ignorance of its role in ocean
biogeochemistry became untenable. Rapid mobilization of relevant research two
decades ago required the community to overcome early false leads, but subsequent
progress in examining the global dynamics of this material has been steady.
Continuous improvements in analytical skill coupled with global ocean hydrographic
survey opportunities resulted in the generation of thousands of measurements
throughout the major ocean basins. Here, observations and model results provide new
insights into the large-scale variability of dissolved organic carbon, its contribution to
the biological pump, and its deep ocean sinks.
Description:
The US National
Science Foundation supported this
work under grants OCE 0752972 to
DAH and CAC, OCE 0751733 and
BIO 0792384 to DJR. The Gordon and
Betty Moore Foundation also provided
support to DJR.
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Woods Hole Open Access Server
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Article
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