Supplementary materials for the article: "Where and when the mesopelagic carbon budget balances, if at all", Oliver et al., 2023

This is the supplementary materials for the article: "Where and when the mesopelagic carbon budget balances, if at all", Oliver et al., 2023

This folder contains:

MLD.mat
- The annual maximum of monthly-averaged mixed layer depth (m) in ECCO:
1992-2001 mean (data retrieved from ECCO Consortium et al., 2023). The mixed layer
depth is determined by the depth where waters are first 0.8◦ C colder than the surface, as
per the Kara Formula (Kara et al., 2000)

FBGC3mm.mat
- Sinking detrital flux [mmol P/m3/d], produced by MOPS (Kriest et al., 2015), monthly average

FBGC4mm.mat
- Detritus removal via remineralisation and denitrification [mmol P/m3/d], produced by MOPS (Kriest et al., 2015), monthly average

FBGC7mm.mat
- Detritus creation [mmol P/m3/d], produced by MOPS (Kriest et al., 2015), monthly average

DETmm.mat
- Sinking Detritus [mmol P/m3/d], produced by MOPS (Kriest et al., 2015), monthly average

NPP.mat
- Primary production [mmol P/m3/d], produced by MOPS (Kriest et al., 2015), annual average

export.mat  
- Export production [mmol P/m3/d], produced by MOPS (Kriest et al., 2015), annual average

grid.mat
- model grid information for ECCO transport matrix (see Khatiwala, S. (2018): https://zenodo.org/record/1246300
463doi: 10.5281/ZENODO.1246300)

cmap5.mat
- matlab colormap            

bluewhitered.mat 
- matlab colormap       

cmap12.mat
- matlab colormap

PlotPaperFigures.m
- matlab script for plotting journal paper figures for "Where and when the mesopelagic carbon budget balances, if at all", Oliver et al., 2023

findClosest.m
- matlab script to find the closest value in a list of values to a specified value