Carbon isotopic constraints on basin-scale vertical and lateral particulate organic carbon dynamics in the northern South China Sea

This dataset includes:(1) Table S1. Time-series of total mass fluxes, POC content, POC fluxes, Lithogeinic matter content,  lithogenic matter flux, C/N mole ratio,as well as the POC isotopic compositions (δ13C, Fm) for sediment trap intercepted sinking particles (n = 59) in the northern South China Sea basin . (2) Table S2. Time-series monthly dust deposition (dry+wet) at station SCS-N of northern South China Sea basin. (3) Table S3. POC content and radiocarbon isotopic compositions for sediment trap intercepted bulk organic carbon from the South China Sea supplementary to one-year time series (2014-2015) published in Blattmann, T.M. et al., 2018. Geophysical Research Letters, 45(17): 9077-9086. (4) Table S4. Time-series clay mineral content and compositions for sediment trap intercepted sinking particles from the South China Sea supplementary to one-year time series (2009-2010) published in Schroeder A. et al., 2015 . Earth Planet. Sci. Lett. 430: 30–42. The dataset is archived in .xlsx data format, consists of four data files with data size of 34 KB.