A Multidisciplinary Deep-Water Oceanographic Station South East of Bermuda: GOFS Component

该项目将对马尾藻海长达33年的S时间序列站进行扩建，以响应全球海洋通量研究。这个距离百慕大75公里、水面4500米的深水站将构成一个大西洋空间站，类似于拟建的瓦胡岛以北太平洋上的GOFS站(Aloha站)。在最初的5年时间里，将每月对该监测站进行访问，以便全面研究贫营养化海洋中生物微粒物质的分布、生产和通量。科学目标是：1)观察和解释混合层和真光层生物和化学的季节和年际变化；(2)观察和解释整个水柱上颗粒通量速率和颗粒再矿化表观速率的季节和年际变化；(3)了解上文(1)和(20)所述过程与水柱的物理特性之间的相互关系。在该时间序列站收集的数据还将用于为百慕大生物站Researh公司的GOFS 2级和3级研究提供后勤和数据框架。

This project will expand the 33-year long Hydrostation S time-series station in the Sargasso Sea to respond to the Global Ocean Flux Study (GOFS). The deep-water station 75 km off Bermuda in 4500m water will comprise an Atlantic analogue to the proposed GOFS station in the Pacific Ocean north of the island of Oahu (Station ALOHA). Monthly visits to this station will be made over an initial 5 year period to bein a comprehensive study of the distribution, production and flux of biogenic particulate material in the oligotrophic ocean. The scientific objectives are: 1) to observe and interpret the seasonal and interannual variability in the biology and chemistry of the mixed layer and the euphotic zone, (2) to observe and interpret the seasonal and interannual variability in the rates of particulate flux and apparent rates of particle remineralization over the entire water column and, (3) to understand the interrelationships between the processes mentioned in (1) and (20 above and thphysical charecteristics of the water column. The collected data obtained at this time-series station will also be used to provide a logistical and data framework for the GOFS level-2 and level-3 studies at the Bermuda Biological Station for Researh, Inc.