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The secrets of the ocean’s ‘twilight’ zone

Posted by : World News Report on | May 23,2015

The secrets of the ocean’s ‘twilight’ zone

The twilight zone is a part of the ocean between 100m and 1000m below the surface of the sea, where a small amount of light from the sun can still penetrate.
 
It is currently known that the efficiency of carbon transport from the atmosphere through this zone has an impact on atmospheric composition. However, it is not known what factors affect this efficiency.
 
The project, led by the National Oceanography Centre (NOC) is called COMICS – Controls over Ocean Mesopelagic Interior Carbon Storage – and it will build the first model of carbon transport in the twilight zone based on direct ecological measurements. By 2020, once this project is complete, COMICS will have helped make predictions of climate change more accurate.

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