Net community production (NCP) represents the amount of biologically-produced organic carbon that is available to be exported out of the surface ocean and is often estimated using in-situ measurements of the O2/Ar ratio in the surface mixed layer. However, physical processes that introduce low-oxygen waters into the surface ocean can significantly bias NCP estimates. Furthermore, without an additional measure of …
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