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Review

Dissolved Organic Matter in the Global Ocean: A Primer

by
Dennis A. Hansell
1,* and
Mónica V. Orellana
2,3
1
Department of Ocean Sciences, RSMAS, University of Miami, Miami, FL 33149, USA
2
Polar Science Center, Applied Physics Laboratory, University of Washington, Seattle, WA 98105, USA
3
Institute for Systems Biology, Seattle, WA 98109, USA
*
Author to whom correspondence should be addressed.
Gels 2021, 7(3), 128; https://doi.org/10.3390/gels7030128
Submission received: 28 May 2021 / Revised: 17 August 2021 / Accepted: 26 August 2021 / Published: 28 August 2021
(This article belongs to the Special Issue Marine Gels)
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Abstract

Marine dissolved organic matter (DOM) holds ~660 billion metric tons of carbon, making it one of Earth’s major carbon reservoirs that is exchangeable with the atmosphere on annual to millennial time scales. The global ocean scale dynamics of the pool have become better illuminated over the past few decades, and those are very briefly described here. What is still far from understood is the dynamical control on this pool at the molecular level; in the case of this Special Issue, the role of microgels is poorly known. This manuscript provides the global context of a large pool of marine DOM upon which those missing insights can be built.
Keywords: marine dissolved organic carbon; ocean carbon cycle; marine microgels marine dissolved organic carbon; ocean carbon cycle; marine microgels

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Hansell, D.A.; Orellana, M.V. Dissolved Organic Matter in the Global Ocean: A Primer. Gels 2021, 7, 128. https://doi.org/10.3390/gels7030128

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Hansell DA, Orellana MV. Dissolved Organic Matter in the Global Ocean: A Primer. Gels. 2021; 7(3):128. https://doi.org/10.3390/gels7030128

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Hansell, Dennis A., and Mónica V. Orellana. 2021. "Dissolved Organic Matter in the Global Ocean: A Primer" Gels 7, no. 3: 128. https://doi.org/10.3390/gels7030128

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Hansell, D. A., & Orellana, M. V. (2021). Dissolved Organic Matter in the Global Ocean: A Primer. Gels, 7(3), 128. https://doi.org/10.3390/gels7030128

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