Sensitivity of simulated CFC-11 distributions in a global ocean model to the treatment of salt rejected during sea-ice formation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 25, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 1003-1006

  Caldeira, Ken ^a   Duffy, Philip B ^a  

^a LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; GAS ABSORPTION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEA ICE; CARBON DIOXIDE; ICE CONTROL; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER;

ATMOSPHERIC GASES; OCEANIC GAS ABSORPTION; CONTROL SIMULATION; DENSITY GRADIENTS; GLOBAL OCEAN MODEL; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; OCEANIC ABSORPTION; SEA ICE FORMATIONS; SUB-GRID SCALE PROCESS; TRANSIENT TRACERS;

NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; ICE;

ABSORPTION; ATMOSPHERIC GAS; CFC; GLOBAL OCEAN; SEA ICE;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0032051381     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GL00336     Document Type: Article

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