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    Introduction to “Understanding the Ocean's biological pump : results from VERTIGO”

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    2008-04-04
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    Buesseler, Ken O.  Concept link
    Lampitt, Richard S.  Concept link
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    https://hdl.handle.net/1912/2530
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    https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.04.009
    Abstract
    Unknown and unexplained aspects of the human condition were the focus of a television series in the USA created by Rod Serling in the early 1960s. The term “The Twilight Zone” used in his show is even more pertinent to the mysterious region between 100 and 1000m in the great oceans of the world, the “middle ground between light and shadow”. It is here where the sunlight at the ocean surface is finally extinguished and replaced by occasional flashes of biological light. This mesopelagic zone, as it is more formally called, is a region of immense change with depth and it is here that most of the biogenic material that settles out of the sunlit or euphotic zone is broken down and returned to the dissolved state. The gravitational downward flux of particles thus decreases with depth in general, and the animals that traverse this great depth, some each and every day, exert a powerful influence on the distribution of many types of materials. The extent of mixing also declines dramatically with depth, such that the water at 1000m is isolated from the atmosphere for many decades to centuries, and this has great significance when considering the influence of the oceans on the overlying atmosphere.
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    Author Posting. © Elsevier B.V., 2008. This is the author's version of the work. It is posted here by permission of Elsevier B.V. for personal use, not for redistribution. The definitive version was published in Deep Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography 55 (2008): 1518-1521, doi:10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.04.009.
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    Preprint: Buesseler, Ken O., Lampitt, Richard S., "Introduction to “Understanding the Ocean's biological pump : results from VERTIGO”", 2008-04-04, https://doi.org/10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.04.009, https://hdl.handle.net/1912/2530
     
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