Reactive Radionuclides as Indicators of New Production and Particle Transformations in the Equatorial Pacific Water Column: JGOFS

私家侦探的建议，研究空间和时间的变化， 一组的分布和颗粒通量的 天然存在的放射性核素作为联合国的一部分 赤道太平洋全球海洋通量研究。 的 被测量的放射性核素作为海洋示踪剂， 地球化学速率的基本信息 控制生物质的生产和命运的过程 海洋水柱中的微粒 本研究设计 为了检验可溶性蛋白质的吸收和释放 化学物种的颗粒物，以及形成和 海洋水柱中颗粒聚集体的破坏 发生的速率在空间和时间上都不同， 对浮游生物生产率变化的反应 海洋表面和有机物质的流量离开 表层 数据将在上下文中进行解释 生物速率测量和其他数据的收集 在JGOFS内，并将用于测试地球化学模型。

The P.I.'s propose to study spatial and temporal variations in the distributions and particulate fluxes of a suite of naturally occurring radioactive nuclides as part of the Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS) in the equatorial Pacific. The radionuclides to be measured serve as ocean tracers that yield fundamental information about the rates of biogeochemical processes that govern the production and fate of biogenic particles in the oceanic water column. The study is designed to test the hypothesis that the uptake and release of soluble chemical species by particulate matter, and the formation and destruction of particle aggregates in the oceanic water column occur at rates that vary both spatially and temporally in response to variations in the rate of plankton production at the sea surface and the flux of organic matter leaving the surface layer. The data will be interpreted within the context of biological rate measurements and other data to be collected within JGOFS and will be used to test biogeochemical models.