The role of particle-triggered calcium carbonate precipitation in the coastal ocean: A significant factor to seawater carbonate chemistry?

Aleck Zhaohui Wang1, Eyal Wurgaft1, Mallory Cecile Ringham1, Shuzhen Song2, Timothy Dellapenna3, James H Churchill4, Tanya Rivlin5 and Boaz Lazar6, (1)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Marine Chemistry and Geochemistry, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (2)East China Normal University, State Key Laboratory of Estuarine and Coastal Research, Shanghai, China, (3)Texas A&M University at Galveston, Galveston, TX, United States, (4)Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, Physical Oceanography, Woods Hole, MA, United States, (5)The Interuniversity Institute for Marine Sciences in Eilat, Eilat, Israel, (6)Hebrew University of Jerusalem, Earth Sciences Institute, Jerusalem, Israel