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Abstract We carried out time-series observations of 210 Po and 210 Pb radioactivity in the western North Pacific Ocean. The sinking fluxes of particulate organic carbon (POC) in the mesopelagic zone were estimated from 210 Po radioactivity during several seasons in the subarctic and subtropical regi...

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Main Authors: Hajime Kawakami, Makio C Honda, Shuichi Watanabe, Toshiro Sino, • Makio, C Honda
Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Pacific
Subarctic
Online Access:http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.1073.354
http://www.jamstec.go.jp/res/ress/kawakami/Kawakami2014.pdf
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Summary:Abstract We carried out time-series observations of 210 Po and 210 Pb radioactivity in the western North Pacific Ocean. The sinking fluxes of particulate organic carbon (POC) in the mesopelagic zone were estimated from 210 Po radioactivity during several seasons in the subarctic and subtropical regions of the western North Pacific. The seasonal changes of POC fluxes at a depth of 400 m were larger in the subarctic region than in the subtropical region. The annual mean POC flux at a depth of 400 m was larger in the subarctic region (57 mgC m -2 day -1 ) than in the subtropical region (36 mgC m -2 day -1 ). The annual mean of the e-ratio (the ratio of POC flux to primary productivity) in the subarctic region (18 %) was about twice the e-ratio in the subtropical region (10 %). These results imply that the efficiency of the biological pump is larger in the subarctic region than in the subtropical region of the western North Pacific.

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