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Revisiting Ocean Color Algorithms For Chlorophyll A And Particulate Organic Carbon In The Southern Ocean Using Biogeochemical Floats, Nils Haëntjens

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The Southern Ocean (SO, oceans south of 30 ^oS) ecosystem plays a key role in global carbon cycles by sinking a major part (43 %) of the anthropogenic CO₂, and being an important source of nutrients for primary producers. However, undersampling of SO biogeochemical properties limits our understanding of the mechanisms taking place in this remote area. The Southern Ocean Carbon and Climate Observing and Modeling project (SOCCOM) has been deploying a large number of autonomous biogeochemical floats to study the SO (as of December 2016, 74 floats out of 200 have been deployed). SOCCOM floats measurements …