Corinne Le Quere¹, Lionel Guidi², Laurent Bopp³, Philip W Boyd⁴, B. B. Cael⁵, Matthew J Church⁶, Damien Eveillard⁷, Stephanie Henson⁸, Joe K Guest¹, Olivier Jaillon⁹, Fabien Lombard², Louis Legendre¹⁰, MarieFanny Racault¹, Simon Ramondenc¹¹, Matt Sullivan¹², Dominic Orchard¹³, Alessandro Tagliabue¹⁴, Thelma Panaïotis⁸, Philip Townsend¹, Meike Vogt¹⁵ and Rui Zhang¹⁶, (1)University of East Anglia, School of Environmental Sciences, Norwich, United Kingdom, (2)Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche (LOV), UMR 7093, Sorbonne Université, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, (3)LSCE Laboratoire des Sciences du Climat et de l'Environnement, Gif-Sur-Yvette Cedex, France, (4)Institute for Marine and Antarctic Sciences, University of Tasmania, Hobart, TAS, Australia, (5)University of Chicago, Chicago, IL, United States, (6)University of Montana, Flathead Lake Biological Station, Polson, United States, (7)Nantes Université, Centrale Nantes, CNRS, LS2N, 2 rue de la Houssinière, 44322 Nantes, France., Nantes, France, (8)National Oceanography Centre, Southampton, United Kingdom, (9)Génomique Métabolique, Genoscope, Institut François Jacob, CEA, CNRS, Université d'Evry, Université Paris-Saclay, Evry, France, (10)Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, LOV, Villefranche-sur-mer, France, (11)Sorbonne Université, CNRS, Laboratoire d'Océanographie de Villefranche, UMR 7093 LOV, Villefranche-sur-Mer, France, (12)The Ohio State University, Department of Microbiology, Columbus, United States, (13)Institute of Computing for Climate Science at the University of Cambridge, Cambridge, United Kingdom, (14)University of Liverpool, Department of Earth, Ocean and Ecological Sciences, Liverpool, United Kingdom, (15)Environmental Physics, Institute of Biogeochemistry and Pollutant Dynamics, ETH Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland, (16)Shenzhen University, Institude for Advanced Study, Shenzhen, China