Course: Global Distribution of Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Ocean

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Global distribution of dissolved organic carbon in the ocean

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Distribution of dissolved organic carbon (DOC)
- Vertical distribution of dissolved organic carbon and its change in deep water Page
  
  　Now that organic carbon in seawater can be accurately measured, we finally have a complete picture of its global distribution. DOC concentrations in surface water vary widely from 60 - 80 μmol L^-1 and decrease with depth. What do the changes in DOC concentrations in deep water mean?
  
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- DOC distribution for all oceans Page
  
  Details of the oceanic DOC distribution were reported by Dennis A. Hansell & Craig A. Carlson, Nature, (1998) and Hansell et al. Their color contour map is shown below.
  
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- Hansell et al, oceanography (2015) PDF download. URL
  
  Oceanography magazine is under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.
  Click here for the Oceanography magazine article introduction page for the above paper.
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