Change in pCO 2 through biological activity in the marginal seas of the western North Pacific: The efficiency of the biological pump estimated by a sedimentTrap experiment

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 53, Issue 6, 1997, Pages 645-662

  Honda, Makio C ^a   Kusakabe, Masashi ^a   Nakabayashi, Shigeto ^a   Manoanini, Steven J ^b   Honjo, Susumu ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

pCO 2; Biological pump; Carbonate equilibrium; Co Ci ratio; Sediment trap experiment; Vertical change in carbon flux

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PUMP; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; MARGINAL SEA; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENT TRAP;

PACIFIC, (NORTHWEST);

EID: 0031397080     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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