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Fig. 5.6. Fluxes of POC, amino
acids and fatty acids for many
locations (reproduced from
Wakeham and Lee 1993).
PARFLUX P and VERTEX IV
are in the central Pacific Gyre,
PARFLUX E the equatorial
North Atlantic, PARFLUX S the
Sargasso Sea, VERTEX I the
California Current, and VERTEX II and III eastern tropical
North Pacific. Lines and ZI/2 are
explained in text
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• Drake Passage
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