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Amon et al. 2003

Amon, R.M.W., Budéus, G. and Meon, B. (2003). Dissolved organic carbon distribution and origin in the Nordic Seas: Exchanges with the Arctic Ocean and the North Atlantic. Journal of Geophysical Research 108: doi: 10.1029/2002JC001594. issn: 0148-0227.

Dissolved organic carbon (DOC) and in situ fluorescence were measured along with hydrographic parameters in the Greenland, Iceland, and Norwegian Seas (Nordic Seas). Surface (1000 m) were relatively high (~50 ¿M DOC) compared with other ocean basins indicating active vertical transport of DOC in this region on decadal timescales. Based on existing vertical transport estimates and 15 ¿M of semilabile DOC we calculated an annual vertical net DOC export of 3.5 Tg C yr-1 in the Greenland Sea and about 36 Tg C yr-1 for the entire Arctic Mediterranean Sea (AMS) including the Greenland-Scotland Ridge overflow. It appears that physical processes play a determining role for the distribution of DOC in the AMS.

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Keywords
Oceanography, Biological and Chemical, Biogeochemical cycles, Oceanography, General, Arctic and Antarctic oceanography, Oceanography, Physical, Ocean optics, Oceanography, Biological and Chemical, Carbon cycling, Oceanography, Biological and Chemical, Chemical tracers

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Journal of Geophysical Research
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