TIME-SERIES STUDY (BATS) SITE.

• Main Authors: U. S. Jgofs, Bermuda Atlantic, Nicholas R. Bates
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Subjects: Pacific; North Atlantic
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.606.9117; http://ijgofs.whoi.edu/Publications/other_pub/Southampton_Bates.pdf

Understanding the relationship between Earth’s climate and the oceanic carbon cycle requires an understanding of the time and space scales of variability of CO2 in the ocean, it’s exchange with the atmosphere and the rate of uptake of anthropogenic CO2 by the ocean. One of the primary components of Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) program has been the long-term ocean observations at both the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study (BATS) site in the western North Atlantic and the Hawaii Ocean Time-series (HOT) site in the central North Pacific. Since 1988, hydrographic and biogeochemical data have been collected at both sites, and a large degree of variability of both physical and biogeochemical properties has been demonstrated over seasonal, interannual and decadal time scales (e.g., Michaels and Knap