Core and Non-Core Measurements of Sediment Composition and Burial Rate and to Evaluate the Response of these Parametersto Climate Change of Time Scale of 104-105 Years

美国联合全球海洋通量研究（JGOFS）旨在 了解管理生产和命运的过程， 海洋中的生物物质足以预测它们的 对全球尺度扰动的影响和反应。 这将通过识别和量化物理， 控制地球化学的化学和生物过程 在海洋中骑行，以及它们与全球 气氛 这一策略的隐含假设是， 实现预测能力的关键在于， 今天量化的相互作用对全球规模的线性响应 扰动和目前地球化学的知识 因此，系统动力学将允许我们预测响应 精确到全局扰动。 这是一个根本性 假设，是JGOFS战略的基石， 预测能力。 这一现象的科学依据 假设从来没有被陈述过，这项工作的目的是 来验证这个假设。

The US Joint Global Ocean Flux Study US JGOFS seeks to understand the processes governing the production and fate of biogenic material in the sea well enough to predict their influences on, and responses to global scale perturbations. This will be done by identifying and quantifying the physical, chemical and biological processes controlling biogeochemical cycling in the ocean, and their interaction with the global atmosphere. The implicit assumption of this strategy for achieving a predictive capability is that the processes and interactions quantified today respond linearly to global scale perturbations and that knowledge of the present biogeochemical system dynamics will, therefore, allow us to predict response to global perturbations with accuracy. This is a fundamental assumption and is the keystone of the JGOFS strategy for predictive capability. The scientific justification for this assumption has never been stated and the object of this work is to verify this assumption.