Export flux of particulate organic carbon from the central equatorial pacific determined using a combined drifting trap- 234Th approach

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 43, Issue 4-6, 1996, Pages 1095-1132

  Murray, James W ^a   Young, Jennifer ^a   Newton, Jan ^a,b   Dunne, John ^a   Chapin, Thomas ^a   Paul, Barbara ^a   McCarthy, James J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b Ambient Monitoring Section   (United States)

^c HARVARD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; EXPORT FLUX; JGOFS-EQPAC; PARTICULATE FLUX; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; TH-234-SEDIMENT TRAP MEASUREMENTS;

PACIFIC, (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 0030485326     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0967-0645(96)00036-7     Document Type: Article

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