Biominerals and the vertical flux of particulate organic carbon from the surface ocean

Physics & Astronomy

• backscattering 10%
• ballast 33%
• calcium carbonates 15%
• carbon 45%
• gyres 22%
• light scattering 19%
• minerals 11%
• ocean surface 100%
• oceans 12%
• optical properties 7%
• particulates 69%
• pumps 8%
• silicon dioxide 17%
• sinking 48%
• water 6%

Earth & Environmental Sciences

• biogenic mineral 28%
• calcium carbonate 16%
• carbon 9%
• inorganic carbon 20%
• light scattering 37%
• modeling 7%
• ocean 9%
• optical property 17%
• particle 17%
• particulate matter 14%
• particulate organic carbon 79%
• pump 14%
• rate 5%
• relative abundance 15%
• sea 9%
• sea surface 59%
• silica 27%
• water 5%