Acknowledgments
The work presented here was financially supported by generous funding
from the German Federal Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) with
the reference number EVAR-03F0814 as part of the collaborative research
project EVAR “The Benguela Upwelling System under Climate Change –
Effects of Variability in Physical Forcing on Carbon and Oxygen
Budgets”. The authors are grateful to the captains and crew of the R/V
Meteor,, R/V SONNE, and R/V Maria S. Merian for their assistance during
the cruises. The authors thank the chief scientists of the M157
(Matthias Zabel), SO283 (Niko Lahajnar) and MSM105 (Volker Mohrholz)
cruises for their support.