Image: Monitoring the ocean biological carbon pump

Description: Monitoring the ocean biological carbon pump Pools, fluxes and processes that form the ocean biological carbon pump (OBCP), and current methods used to monitor them. Bold black text and thick black arrows represent the key export pathways and interactions with other domains (land and atmosphere). Global stocks of the different carbon pools in the ocean are given in the box on the left; the four major kinds of pools – DIC, DOC, POC and PIC – are given in different colours. This figure has been inspired by, and builds on, two earlier figures, one from the CEOS carbon from space report (CEOS, 2014) and the other from the NASA EXPORTS plan (Siegel et al., 2016).

Committee on Earth Observation Satellites (2014) "CEOS strategy for carbon observations from space". Response to the Group on Earth Observations (GEO) carbon strategy. Printed in Japan by JAXA and I&A Corporation. D.A. Siegel, K.O. Buesseler, M.J. Behrenfeld, C.R. Benitez-Nelson, E. Boss, M.A. Brzezinski, A. Burd, C.A. Carlson, E.A. D’Asaro, S.C. Doney, M.J. Perry, R.H.R. Stanley, D.K. Steinberg (2016) "Prediction of the export and fate of global ocean net primary production: the EXPORTS science plan", Front. Mar. Sci., 3. doi:10.3389/fmars.2016.00022
Author: Brewin RJ, Sathyendranath S, Platt T, Bouman H, Ciavatta S, Dall'Olmo G, Dingle J, Groom S, Jönsson B, Kostadinov TS and Kulk G.
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