Response to Comment on “Dissolved organic sulfur in the ocean: Biogeochemistry of a petagram inventory”
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Dittmar et al. proposed thatmixingalone can explain our observed decrease inmarine dissolved organic sulfur with age. However, their simple model lacks an explanation for the origin of sulfur-depleted organic matter in the deep ocean and cannot adequately reproduce our observed stoichiometric changes. Using radiocarbon age also implicitly models the preferential cycling of sulfur that they are disputing.
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Comment on "Dissolved organic sulfur in the ocean: Biogeochemistry of a petagram inventory".
Ksionzek et al (Reports, 28 October 2016, p. 456) provide important data describing the distribution of dissolved organic sulfur (DOS) in the Atlantic Ocean. Here, we show that mixing between water masses is sufficient to explain the observed distribution of DOS, concluding that the turnover time of refractory DOS that Ksionzek et al present cannot be deduced from their data.
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