New Production in the Eastern Equatorial Pacific and its Relation to Flux of Nitrogen and Carbon

该合同支持一项为期三年的计划，该计划将测量赤道东太平洋的新产量，并对根据地表水产量的其他指标预测新产量的模型进行定量测试。野外工作将作为NOAA已经资助的项目的一部分，并与其他NSF研究人员合作完成。新的生产与海洋表层水的碳损失量有关，赤道东太平洋被认为是一个非常活跃的新生产区域。这项工作是生物海洋学部分支持的全球海洋通量研究（GOFS）不断发展的努力的一部分。

This award supports a three year program to measure new production in the eastern equatorial Pacific and to quantitatively test models that predict new production from other indexes of surface water production. The field work will be done as part of on an already funded project by NOAA and in collaboration with other NSF investigators. New production is related to the amount of carbon lost from ocean surface waters and the eastern equatorial Pacific is thought to be a very active area for new production. This work forms part of evolving efforts in Global Ocean Flux Studies (GOFS) that are partially supported by Biological Oceanography.