| Abstract | PROOF (Biogeochemical Processes in the Ocean Flow) represents the French contribution to international program JGOFS. It aims at determining particulate flows, in particular carbon, from the surface to the ocean floor and from the formation to the burrying in the sediment.
Several projects were already carried out in the context of this program : ANTARES, DYNAPROC, ECOMARGE, EUMELI, EPOPE_FLUPAC, EPOPE_OLIPAC, FLUPAC_EBENE, FLUPAC_EQUALIS, FRONTAL_ALMOFRONT, FRONTAL_TOMOFRONT, KERFIX, MEDATLANTE, MIGZOO, PROSOPE, SO_DYFAMED, and new projects of observations are underway:
- ACTION: Anthropogenic Carbon: Temporal Increase, Obervations and Numerization
- BARMED: influence of the biological carbon pump on the climatic changes, and reciprocally
- BIOSOPE: BIogeochmistry and Optics South Pacific Experiment<br>
- DIAPAZON: DIAzotrophie PAcifique ZONe
SCIENTIFIC AIMS
- FLAMENCO2 (ex FRAISE): Air-to-sea CO2 flow (air-to-sea interface)
- Geochemistry, Phytoplankton & Color of the Ocean (GeP&CO)
- KEOPS : KErguelen :compared study of the Ocean and the Plateau in Surface water
- MELISSA: Mediterranean Seasonal Limitations
- PECHE: Production and Exportation of Carbon : control by HEterotrophic organisms at small time scales
- POMME
- APPLE: Parametrisation of photosynthesfrom Laboratory Experiments
- PROXSi: PROXy Silicium Isotopic composition of silicon in the opal, proxy of the paleoproductivity
- FORAMPROX: An integrated ecological/geochemical effort for the improvement of paleoceanographic proxies based on benthic foraminiferal carbonate
- UVECO: Induction of microbial community responses and dissolved organic matter transformations by UltraViolet radiation in marine ECOsytems
- OISO: Indian Ocean - Observation Service
- SO-DIF: Observation service DYFAMED and modeling of the marine biogeochemical cycles : OCEVAR, PROMESO, SUBMESO |
