Particulate Organic Carbon Flux in the Subpolar North Atlantic as Informed by Bio-Optical Data from the Ocean Observatories Initiative:

• Main Author: Cuevas, Jose M.
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: Boston College 2024
• Subjects: carbon cycle; marine biogeochemistry; north atlantic; ocean observing; Irminger Sea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/2345/bc-ir:109961

Thesis advisor: Hilary I. Palevsky The biological carbon pump in the North Atlantic Ocean is powered by the annual spring phytoplankton bloom. These primary producers use inorganic carbon in the surface oceans and convert it into organic carbon, a fraction of which is exported out of the surface mix...