Low-latitude mesopelagic nutrient recycling controls productivity and export

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• What: The authors propose that remineralization within the low-latitude mesopelagic domain (LLMD) (defined here to span 30°S-30°N and 150m-870m) and rapid subsequent re-emergence of nutrients through the shallow overturning structures within the lowlatitudes are the dominant driver of low-latitude PP and export. The authors examine the extent to which local nutrient recycling in the tropics contributes to sustaining lowlatitude PP and export by quantifying its contribution to the total low-latitude mesopelagic nutrient inventory (here the authors use phosphate, or PO43-) using an observational product based on hydrographic measurements, GLODAPv212 . . .
  

   

  

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