Spring-summer imbalance of dissolved inorganic carbon in the mixed layer of the northwestern Sargasso Sea

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 48, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 115-134

  Marchal, Olivier ^a   Monfray, Patrick ^a   Bates, Nicholas R ^b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA FLUX; BATS; CARBON BUDGET MODELLING; CARBON DIOXIDE EMISSION; CARBON DRAWDOWN; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; INORGANIC CARBON; MIXED LAYER; MIXED LAYER BUDGET; NITROCLINE; SPRING-SUMMER IMBALANCE; THERMOCLINE;

ATLANTIC, SARGASSO SEA; SARGASSO SEA;

EID: 0029730311     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3402/tellusb.v48i1.15831     Document Type: Article

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