Variability of primary production and air-sea CO 2 flux in the Southern Ocean

• Published in: Global Biogeochemical Cycles
• Main Authors: Wang, Shanlin, Moore, J. Keith
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: eScholarship, University of California 2012
• Subjects: Physical Sciences and Mathematics; western antarctic peninsula; large-scale circulation; recent climate-change; ice zone west; ross sea; phytoplankton bloom; kerguelen plateau; interannual variability; community structure; iron fertilization; Antarctic; Antarctic Peninsula; Kerguelen; Ross Sea; Sarmiento; Southern Ocean; Antarc*; Sea ice
• Online Access: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/10z7570v

Biogeochemical cycling in the Southern Ocean (SO) plays a key role in the global sea-air CO2balance and in the ocean anthropogenic carbon inventory (Ito et al., 2010; Khatiwala et al., 2009; Sarmiento et al., 2004). Some previous studies suggest a decreasing trend in the Southern Ocean carbon sink (...