Certain aspects of the lipid pump such as the diapause depth and duration of zooplankton can vary among regions that have different overwintering temperatures and resident community characteristics. There are other subarctic regions that have shown similar carbon export rates to those found in the temperate North Atlantic (1–4 g C m y) via seasonally-migrating zooplankton. For instance, C. glacialis and C. hyperboreus are the most dominant zooplankton species found in the Arctic Ocean at similar latitudes, and they contribute to a 3.1 g C m y flux of lipid carbon below 100 m during overwintering. A slightly higher maximum flux in lipid carbon (2–4.3 g C m y) below 150 m was observed in the subarctic North Pacific and was primarily attributed to the Neocalanus genus of copepods. In these areas, N. flemingeri, N. cristatus, and N. plumchrus are the primary contributors to the lipid pump, whereas, the subantarctic Southern Ocean consists primarily of N. tonsus contributing to a lipid carbon flux of 1.7–9.3 g C m y out of the euphotic zone. The rates or magnitude of these processes may slightly vary due to characteristic differences between these subpolar regions, which have largely been under-studied relative to their contributions to the lipid pump.