Thorium-234, POC and PON fluxes during POLARSTERN cruise ANT-XXVIII/3, January-March 2012

• Main Authors: Roca-Martí, Montserrat, Puigcorbé, Viena, Iversen, Morten Hvitfeldt, Rutgers van der Loeff, Michiel M, Klaas, Christine, Cheah, Wee, Bracher, Astrid, Masqué, Pere
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2015
• Subjects: Southern Ocean
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.848823; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.848823

Carbon fixation by phytoplankton plays a key role in the uptake of atmospheric CO2 in the Southern Ocean. Yet, it still remains unclear how efficiently the particulate organic carbon (POC) is exported and transferred from ocean surface waters to depth during phytoplankton blooms. In addition, little...