Swept under the carpet: organic matter burial decreases global ocean biogeochemical model sensitivity to remineralization length scale

Although of substantial importance for marine tracer distributions and eventually global carbon, oxygen, and nitrogen fluxes, the interaction between sinking and remineralization of organic matter, benthic fluxes and burial is not always represented consistently in global biogeochemical models. We h...

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Main Authors: I. Kriest, A. Oschlies
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Copernicus Publications 2013-12-01
Series:Biogeosciences
Online Access:http://www.biogeosciences.net/10/8401/2013/bg-10-8401-2013.pdf