Environmental influences on sinking rates and distributions of transparent exopolymer particles after a typhoon surge at the Western Pacific

Abstract A multidisciplinary approach was used to investigate the causes of the distributions and sinking rates of transparent exopolymer particles (TEPs) during the period of September–October (2017) in the Western Pacific Ocean (WPO); the study period was closely dated to a northwest typhoon surge...

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Main Authors: M. Shahanul Islam, Jun Sun, Guicheng Zhang, Zhuo Chen, Hui Zhou
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2021-05-01
Series:Scientific Reports
Online Access:https://doi.org/10.1038/s41598-021-88477-0