Biological and physical influences on marine snowfall at the equator

Rainer Kiko1, Arne Biastoch1, Peter Brandt1, Sophie E Cravatte2, Helena Hauss3, Rebecca Marie Hummels1, Iris Kriest1, Frederic Marin4, Andrew M. P. McDonnell5, Andreas Oschlies1, Marc Picheral6, Franziska U Schwarzkopf1, Andreas M Thurnherr7 and Lars Stemmann6, (1)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Kiel, Germany, (2)IRD Nouvelle-Calédonie, Nouméa, New Caledonia, (3)GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel, Germany, (4)LEGOS, Université de Toulouse, (IRD, CNES, CNRS, UPS), Toulouse, France, (5)University of Alaska Fairbanks, Fairbanks, AK, United States, (6)Observatoire Océanologique de Villefranche-sur-Mer, Villefranche Sur Mer Cedex, France, (7)Lamont-Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University, New York, NY, United States