A photochemical sink for dissolved organic carbon in the ocean.

• Main Author: Johannessen, Sophia C. H.
• Other Authors: Ph.D.
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: Dalhousie University 2014
• Subjects: Physical Oceanography; Biology; Oceanography; Bedford; Bering Sea; Canada
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10222/55714

The photochemical oxidation of coloured or chromophoric dissolved organic matter in the ocean plays an important role in the carbon cycle. The production of dissolved inorganic carbon, DIC, represents the most rapid direct photochemical loss of dissolved organic carbon, DOC. The goal of this thesis...