Budgets of Biogenic Elements in the NW Atlantic Ocean Margin: A Synthesis and Modelling Project

为了将对大陆架环境的高质量观测带入美国全球海洋通量联合研究(U.S.JGOFS)的最终合成，来自七个主要海洋机构和大学海洋科学系的研究小组将努力组织和合成在大西洋切萨皮克-哈特拉斯大陆架地区进行的一次独特的实地实验中收集的关于碳循环和相关生物活性元素的数据。这些数据包括对无机和有机碳的现存量、通量和物理传输的天气测量，以及相关的生物群落动态。这些数据将首先被组织和研究，以了解陆架系统本身的生物地球化学动力学，然后被用于美国JGOFS合成和建模项目的更大的海洋碳模拟工作。研究人员预计，这一结果将使人们初步了解大陆架过程在整个全球碳循环中的作用和量化意义。

ABSTRACTOCE-9818804With the aim of bringing a high-quality observations on a continental shelf setting into the final synthesis of the U.S. Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (U.S.JGOFS), a team of researchers from seven major oceanographic institutions and university marine science departments will endeavor to organize and synthesize data on the cycling of carbon and related biologically-active elements collected during a unique field experiment on the Chesapeake-Hatteras continental shelf region of the Atlantic Ocean. The data include synoptic measurements of the standing amounts, fluxes, and physical transport of inorganic and organic carbon together with the associated biological community dynamics. These data will first be organized and studied to understand the biogeochemical dynamics of the shelf system itself and then worked into the greater ocean carbon modeling effort of the U.S.JGOFS Synthesis and Modeling Project. The researchers anticipate that the results will provide a first look at the role and quantitative significance of continental shelf processes in the overall global carbon cycle.