On the temperature dependence of oceanic export efficiency

Cael, B. B. ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0003-1317-5718; Follows, Michael J.. 2016 On the temperature dependence of oceanic export efficiency. Geophysical Research Letters, 43 (10). 5170-5175. 10.1002/2016GL068877

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Abstract/Summary

Quantifying the fraction of primary production exported from the euphotic layer (termed the export efficiency ef) is a complicated matter. Studies have suggested empirical relationships with temperature which offer attractive potential for parameterization. Here we develop what is arguably the simplest mechanistic model relating the two, using established thermodynamic dependencies for primary production and respiration. It results in a single‐parameter curve that constrains the envelope of possible efficiencies, capturing the upper bounds of several ef‐T data sets. The approach provides a useful theoretical constraint on this relationship and extracts the variability in ef due to temperature but does not idealize out the remaining variability which evinces the substantial complexity of the system in question.

Item Type:	Publication - Article
Digital Object Identifier (DOI):	10.1002/2016GL068877
ISSN:	0094-8276
Date made live:	25 Apr 2020 13:46 +0 (UTC)
URI:	https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527320

Item Type:

Publication - Article

Digital Object Identifier (DOI):

10.1002/2016GL068877

ISSN:

0094-8276

Date made live:

25 Apr 2020 13:46 +0 (UTC)

URI:

https://nora.nerc.ac.uk/id/eprint/527320