Executive summary
V. Ittekkot

SCOPE 57 Particle Flux in the Ocean, V. Ittekkot, P. Schäfer, S. Honjo, and P.J. Depetris eds., 1996, 372pp.

For more than a decade the SCOPE/UNEP Carbon Unit at the Hamburg University has initiated and coordinated projects on global carbon cycle. The three projects conducted by the Unit are: Carbon and Mineral Transport in Major World Rivers, Carbon and Nutrient Cycling in Lakes and Estuaries and Particle Flux in the Ocean. A large number of scientists from developing, threshold and developed countries actively participated in the projects. Within the framework of these projects ten international workshops were organized by the Unit in: Hamburg, Germany (1982); Assuit, Egypt (1983); Caracas, Venezuela (1984), Tianjin, People's Republic of China (1985); Fairbanks, USA (1986), Texel, The Netherlands (1987), Irkutsk, Russia (1988), Istanbul, Turkey (1989), Goa, India (1991) and Hamburg, Germany (1993). These workshops provided a state of the art assessment in the respective fields and formulated future research needs. The proceedings of these workshops have been published in a series of special monographs from the Hamburg Carbon Unit. SCOPE Report 42: Biogeochemistry of Major World Rivers provides a summary of information collected within the framework of the first two projects mentioned above.

The present volume is an outcome of the final workshop on Particle Flux in the Ocean, which was held in Hamburg, Germany in September 1993. Scientists from several countries, including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, the People's Republic of China, France, Germany, India, Japan, Romania, Russia, Turkey, Ukraine and the USA, participated in the Workshop to review progress made in the field. The following is a brief introduction to the role of particle flux in the marine carbon cycle.

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