(Table 2) Comparison of annual mass fluxes measured with shallower and deeper sediment traps off Cape Blanc (CB), supplement to: Fischer, Gerhard; Karakas, Gökay; Blaas, M; Ratmeyer, Volker; Nowald, Nicolas; Schlitzer, Reiner; Helmke, Peer; Davenport, Robert; Donner, Barbara; Neuer, Susanne; Wefer, Gerold (2009): Mineral ballast and particle settling rates in the coastal upwelling system off NW Africa and the South Atlantic. International Journal of Earth Sciences, 98(2), 281-298

• Main Authors: Fischer, Gerhard, Karakas, Gökay, Blaas, M, Ratmeyer, Volker, Nowald, Nicolas, Schlitzer, Reiner, Helmke, Peer, Davenport, Robert, Donner, Barbara, Neuer, Susanne, Wefer, Gerold
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA - Data Publisher for Earth & Environmental Science 2009
• Subjects: Event label; Sample code/label; DEPTH, water; Total, flux per year; Opal, flux; Carbon, organic, flux; Calcium carbonate, flux; Lithogenic, flux; Comment; Trap; Calculated, see references; M12/1; M16/2; Meteor 1986; Center for Marine Environmental Sciences MARUM; Carr; Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.1594/pangaea.760878; https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.760878

The ocean off NW Africa is the second most important coastal upwelling system with a total annual primary production of 0.33 Gt of carbon per year (Carr in Deep Sea Res II 49:59-80, 2002). Deep ocean organic carbon fluxes measured by sediment traps are also fairly high despite low biogenic opal flux...