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Modelling Particle Fluxes

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Towards a Model of Ocean Biogeochemical Processes

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Abstract

Marine particles play an important rôle in the chemistry of the oceans, not only because they provide sources of, and sinks for, solutes, but also, and especially, because they move relative to water. Examples of the resulting fluxes can be seen in the vertical transport of organic carbon and nitrogen, calcium carbonate, or trace metals. The components of most oceanic particles were originally formed as a result of light-driven biological processes in the euphotic zone. The vertical flux of particles decreases with depth and is controlled by a range of biological, physical, and chemical processes.

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  1. Dept. of Oceanography, Texas A&M University, College Station, Texas, 77843, US

    G. Jackson

  2. Physics Institute, University of Bern, 3012, Bern, Switzerland

    F. Joos

  3. Station zoologique, BP 28, 06230, Villefranche, France

    P. Nival

  4. Dept. of Ecology, University of Malaga, 29071, Malaga, Spain

    J. Rodriguez

  5. Institut fur Meerskunde, JGOFS Buro, 2300, Kiel 1, Germany

    U. Wolf

  6. Marine Sciences Department., University College of North Wales, Menai Bridge, Gwynedd, LL59 5EY, UK

    P. Tett

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  1. Department of Fisheries and Oceans, St. John’s, Newfoundland, A1C 5X1, Canada

    Geoffrey T. Evans

  2. James Rennell Centre for Ocean Circulation, Natural Environment Research Council Chilworth Research Centre, Southampton, SO1 7NS, UK

    Michael J. R. Fasham

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Jackson, G., Joos, F., Nival, P., Rodriguez, J., Wolf, U., Tett, P. (1993). Modelling Particle Fluxes. In: Evans, G.T., Fasham, M.J.R. (eds) Towards a Model of Ocean Biogeochemical Processes. NATO ASI Series, vol 10. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-84602-1_11

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