@misc{rixen_the_monsoon_2019, author={Rixen, T., Gaye, B., Emeis, K.}, title={The monsoon, carbon fluxes, and the organic carbon pump in the northern Indian Ocean}, year={2019}, howpublished = {journal article}, doi = {https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2019.03.001}, abstract = {Model experiments and measured organic carbon burial rates indicate that a weakening of the summer monsoon strength hardly affected the long-term annual average organic carbon export flux into the deep sea during the last approximately 7000 years. In addition to the summer and winter monsoon strength, which are assumed to be inversely related to each other, monsoon-driven physical impacts on the nutrient trapping efficiency seem to have kept organic carbon fluxes at a high level. A feedback mechanism caused by negative impacts of oxygen concentrations on the respiration and thus nutrient trapping efficiency apparently prevents the development of anoxia to the point where sulfate reduction occurs and sets an upper limit to organic carbon fluxes. Whether changes in the phytoplankton community structure observed in recent decades indicate that this self-regulating system is becoming unstable is open to question.}, note = {Online available at: \url{https://doi.org/10.1016/j.pocean.2019.03.001} (DOI). Rixen, T.; Gaye, B.; Emeis, K.: The monsoon, carbon fluxes, and the organic carbon pump in the northern Indian Ocean. Progress in Oceanography. 2019. vol. 175, 24-39. DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2019.03.001}}