Upper ocean export of particulate organic carbon in the Arabian Sea derived from thorium-234

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 10-11, 1998, Pages 2461-2487

  Buesseler, Ken ^a   Ball, Lary ^a   Andrews, John ^a   Benitez Nelson, Claudia ^a   Belastock, Rebecca ^a   Chai, Fei ^b   Chao, Yi ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON FLUX; MONSOON; PARTICULATE FLUX; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; THORIUM; TRACER; UPPER OCEAN;

ARABIAN SEA;

EID: 0032428205     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(98)80022-2     Document Type: Article

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