Th-234 and Po-210 as POC flux proxies during the ARK-XXVII/3 expedition (August-October 2012)

• Main Authors: Roca-Martí, Montserrat, Puigcorbé, Viena, Stimac, Ingrid, Rutgers van der Loeff, Michiel M, Masqué, Pere
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: PANGAEA 2016
• Subjects: Arctic; Arctic Ocean; The Ark; Phytoplankton; Sea ice; Zooplankton
• Online Access: https://doi.pangaea.de/10.1594/PANGAEA.858790; https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.858790

The Arctic sea-ice extent reached a record minimum in September 2012. Sea-ice decline increases the absorption of solar energy in the Arctic Ocean, affecting primary production and the plankton community. How this will modulate the sinking of particulate organic carbon (POC) from the ocean surface r...