Sea-surface warming, sea-ice melting and related freshening, changes in circulation and
mixing regimes, and ocean acidification induced by the present climate changes are …

Dynamic exchanges between dissolved organic matter (DOM) and particulate organic
matter (POM) plays a critical role in organic carbon cycling in coastal and inland aquatic …

Bacteria are now generally believed to adopt two main lifestyles: planktonic individuals, or
surface-attached biofilms. However, in recent years medical microbiologists started to stress …

Throughout Earth's history, the oceans have played a dominant role in the climate system
through the storage and transport of heat and the exchange of water and climate-relevant …

Over the past decade there has been rapidly growing interest in the potential effects of
ocean acidification and perturbations of the carbonate system on marine organisms. While …

The Finite Element Sea Ice-Ocean Model (FESOM) is the first global ocean general
circulation model based on unstructured-mesh methods that has been developed for the …

Mediated principally by the sinking of organic rich particles from the upper ocean, the
Biological Carbon Pump (BCP) is a significant component of the global carbon cycle. It …

Application of biogeochemical models to the study of marine ecosystems is pervasive, yet
objective quantification of these models' performance is rare. Here, 12 lower trophic level …

Ongoing global warming induced by anthropogenic emissions has opened the debate as to
whether geoengineering is a'quick fix'option. Here we analyse the intended and unintended …

The vast majority of freshly produced oceanic dissolved organic carbon (DOC) is derived
from marine phytoplankton, then rapidly recycled by heterotrophic microbes. A small fraction …