Flux data in the Southern Ocean ...

• Main Authors: Wefer, Gerold, Fischer, Gerhard
• Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 1991
• Subjects: Trap; Joint Global Ocean Flux Study JGOFS; South Atlantic in Late Quaternary Reconstruction of Budget and Currents SFB261; Bransfield Strait; Sea ice; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.734159; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.734159

Since 1983 time-series traps have been deployed in the Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean to measure the flux of organic carbon, biogenic silica and carbonate. The organic carbon flux data are used to calculate primary production rates and organic carbon fluxes at 100 m water depth. From these ca...