Robotic observations of high wintertime carbon export in California coastal  waters

Bishop, James K. B.; Fong, Michael B.; Wood, Todd J.

doi:https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3109-2016

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3109-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3109-2016

© Author(s) 2016. This work is distributed under
the Creative Commons Attribution 3.0 License.

Articles | Volume 13, issue 10

Research article

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30 May 2016

Research article |

| 30 May 2016

Robotic observations of high wintertime carbon export in California coastal waters

James K. B. Bishop, Michael B. Fong, and Todd J. Wood

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RC1: 'review of the ms by Bishop et al.', Anonymous Referee #1, 11 Apr 2016
- AC1: 'Reply to Reviewer 1.', J.K.B. Bishop, 20 Apr 2016
RC2: 'Bishop et al. review', Anonymous Referee #2, 13 Apr 2016
- AC2: 'reply to Reviewer 2.', J.K.B. Bishop, 20 Apr 2016
RC3: 'Review of the ms by Bishop et al.', Anonymous Referee #3, 16 Apr 2016
- AC3: 'reply to Reviewer 3.', J.K.B. Bishop, 20 Apr 2016

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ED: Publish subject to minor revisions (Editor review) (22 Apr 2016) by Emilio Marañón

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ED: Publish as is (05 May 2016) by Emilio Marañón

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Is the ocean’s biological carbon pump stable or changing? The Carbon Flux Explorer (CFE), capable of year-long missions without tending ships, was invented to address this question. The CFE dives to 1000 m depths and drifts with currents to optically measure the downward flux of sinking carbon using imaging methods. During wintertime tests in California coastal waters, the CFE observed fluxes ∼10 times higher than previously reported. Traditional approaches have undersampled > 1 mm aggregates.