Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS)

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Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS)

Published: March 30, 2010, 12:00 am

Updated: December 15, 2011, 3:59 pm

Lead Author: Steve Baum

Topics:

Oceans and seas

Climate Change

Environmental Chemistry

Biophysics

This article has been reviewed by the following Topic Editor: C Michael Hogan

The Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS) was a United Kingdom contribution to International Geosphere-Biosphere Project's Joint Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS), funded by the Natural Environment Research Council (NERC).

This article is written at a definitional level only. Authors wishing to expand this entry are inivited to expand the present treatment, which additions will be peer reviewed prior to publication of any expansion.

The goal of GOFS was to study differences in glacial-interglacial paleoenvironments of the eastern Atlantic Ocean, especially between the last glacial and the Holocene . The results are presented in a special issue of Paleoceanography (Vol. 10, No. 3, 1995).

Citation

Steve Baum (Lead Author);C Michael Hogan (Topic Editor) "Biogeochemical Ocean Flux Study (BOFS)". In: Encyclopedia of Earth. Eds. Cutler J. Cleveland (Washington, D.C.: Environmental Information Coalition, National Council for Science and the Environment). [First published in the Encyclopedia of Earth March 30, 2010; Last revised Date December 15, 2011; Retrieved June 19, 2013 <http://www.eoearth.org/article/Biogeochemical_Ocean_Flux_Study_(BOFS)>