Organic Carbon Export and Loss Rates in the Red Sea

The authors express their gratitude to the scientists, officers and crews of the research vessel Thuwal for logistical support and assistance onboard during the deployment of the BGC-Argo float. U. Langner is cordially thanked for plotting the map of the Red Sea, L. Legendre and L. Prieur, Peter Brewer and Edward Peltzer for their advices and discussions on the results presented here and for reading the manuscript. This study is funded by the King Abdullah University of Science and Technology (KAUST), Kingdom of Saudi Arabia. The collection of the data was funded by a European Research Council Advanced grant (remOcean, agreement no. 246577) while final writing was funded by a European Research Council Advanced grant (REFINE, agreement no. 834177). The data presented here are freely available by the International Argo Program and the national programs that contribute to it (http://argo.jcommops.org).