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30 May 2016
Research article |
| 30 May 2016
Robotic observations of high wintertime carbon export in California coastal waters
Department of Earth and Planetary Science, UC Berkeley, Berkeley, CA
94720, USA
Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
Michael B. Fong
Department of Chemistry, Scripps Institution of Oceanography, La
Jolla, CA 92093, USA
Todd J. Wood
Earth Sciences Division, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory,
Berkeley, CA 94720, USA
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Is the ocean’s biological carbon pump stable or changing? The Carbon Flux Explorer (CFE), capable of year-long missions without tending ships, was invented to address this question. The CFE dives to 1000 m depths and drifts with currents to optically measure the downward flux of sinking carbon using imaging methods. During wintertime tests in California coastal waters, the CFE observed fluxes ∼10 times higher than previously reported. Traditional approaches have undersampled > 1 mm aggregates.
Is the ocean’s biological carbon pump stable or changing? The Carbon Flux Explorer (CFE),...
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