Assessment of Export Efficiency Equations in the Southern Ocean Applied to Satellite‐Based Net Primary Production
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Assessment of Export Efficiency Equations in the Southern Ocean Applied to Satellite‐Based Net Primary Production

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    Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans
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    Carbon export efficiency (e‐ratio) is defined as the fraction of organic carbon fixed through net primary production (NPP) that is exported out of the surface productive layer of the ocean. Recent observations for the Southern Ocean suggest a negative e‐ratio versus NPP relationship, and a reduced dependency of export efficiency on temperature, different than in the global domain. In this study, we complement information from a passive satellite sensor with novel space‐based lidar observations of ocean particulate backscattering to infer NPP over the entire annual cycle, and estimate Southern Ocean export rates from five different empirical models of export efficiency. Inferred Southern Ocean NPP falls within the range of previous studies, with a mean estimate of 15.8 (± 3.9) Pg C yr−1 for the region south of 30 S during the 2005–2016 period. We find that an export efficiency model that accounts for silica(Si)‐ballasting, which is constrained by observations with a negative e‐ratio versus NPP relationship, shows the best agreement with in situ‐based estimates of annual net community production (annual export of 2.7 ± 0.6 Pg C yr−1 south of 30 S). By contrast, models based on the analysis of global observations with a positive e‐ratio versus NPP relationship predict annually integrated export rates that are ∼ 33% higher than the Si‐dependent model. Our results suggest that accounting for Si‐induced ballasting is important for the estimation of carbon export in the Southern Ocean.
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    Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans, 123(4), 2945-2964
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