JGOFS synthesis and modeling: The North Atlantic Ocean

Starting with the North Atlantic Bloom Experiment in 1989 oceanographers from 2 variety of countries and scientific disciplines have studied biogeochemical processes in the North Atlantic ocean as a contribution to the Jomt Global Ocean Flux Study (JGOFS). The papers collected in this special issue of Deep-Sea Research Part II are a contribution to the oncjoing international sqnthesis of this decade long effect. In the introduction we give an overview on the major results presented by the individual papers.