Anthropogenic CO2 in the Atlantic Ocean

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 12, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 165-191

  Gruber, Nicolas ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC ACTIVITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; OCEAN;

ATLANTIC;

EID: 0031819031     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GB03658     Document Type: Article

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