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National Aeronautics and Space Administration [NCC-5-258, NAG5-11259]; Commonwealth Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography at Old Dominion University, VA This work would not have been possible without the hard work of the TAO Project Office, I would like to thank Dr. Michael McPhaden, Director, for the use of the extensive data available from their mooring array, as well as the SeaWiFS Project and the Distributed Active Archive Center at the Goddard Space Flight Center, for the production and distribution of these data. I wish to thank the programme leader, Dr. Robert Le Borgne for the FLUPAC data, Drs. Martine Rodier for nutrients, Jacques Neveux for photosynthetic pigments, Dr. Aubert Le Bouteiller for 14C uptake measurements. Thanks to the program leader Dr. James Murray for Zonal Flux data, Dr. Martine Rodier for nutrients, Dr. Aubert Le Bouteiller for pigments and primary productivity. Thanks to Dr. Paul Ginoux for his atmospheric dust model output. Constructive conversations with Eileen Hofmann throughout all stages of this work are gratefully acknowledged. Drs. Antonio Busalacchi, James Christian, Marjy Friedrichs, John Klinck, Raghu Murtugudde, Larry Atkinson, Marie-Helene Radenac and Bettina Fach provided helpful comments on earlier presentations of this research. I also thank two anonymous reviewers for constructive comments on an earlier version of the manuscript. This research was generously supported by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration contracts NCC-5-258 and NAG5-11259. The computer facilities and resources were provided by the Commonwealth Center for Coastal Physical Oceanography at Old Dominion University, VA. 1 ELSEVIER SCIENCE BV AMSTERDAM J MARINE SYST