Dissolved Organic Matter in the Global Ocean: A Primer.
Publication Title
Gels
Document Type
Article
Publication Date
8-28-2021
Keywords
washington; seattle; isb
Abstract
Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) holds ~660 billion metric tons of carbon, making it one of Earth's major carbon reservoirs that is exchangeable with the atmosphere on annual to millennial time scales. The global ocean scale dynamics of the pool have become better illuminated over the past few decades, and those are very briefly described here. What is still far from understood is the dynamical control on this pool at the molecular level; in the case of this Special Issue, the role of microgels is poorly known. This manuscript provides the global context of a large pool of marine DOM upon which those missing insights can be built.
Specialty/Research Institute
Institute for Systems Biology
COinS
