Atmospheric iron supply and enhanced vertical carbon flux in the NE subarctic Pacific: is there a connection?

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 12, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 429-441

  Boyd, P W ^a,b   Wong, C S ^c   Merrill, J ^d   Whitney, F ^c   Snow, J ^d   Harrison, P J ^a   Gower, J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN COUPLING; CARBON CYCLE; IRON; PHYTOPLANKTON;

(NORTHEAST); ARCTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0032439933     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/98GB00745     Document Type: Article

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