Decoupling between particulate carbon and biogenic silica export within North Pacific Subtropical Gyre cyclonic eddies.

Kuanbo Zhou1, Claudia R Benitez-Nelson2, Jie Huang3, Peng Xiu4, Zhenyu Sun1 and Minhan Dai5, (1)Xiamen University, State Key Laboratory of Marine Environmental Science, Xiamen, China, (2)University of South Carolina, School of the Earth, Ocean, and Environment, Columbia, SC, United States, (3)Tsinghua University, Beijing, China, (4)SCSIO South China Sea Institute of Oceanology, Chinese Acaademy of Sciences, Guangzhou, China, (5)Xiamen Univ, Xiamen, China