A cubic relationship between air-sea CO2 exchange and wind speed

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 1999, Pages 1889-1892

  Wanninkhof, Rik ^a   McGillis, Wade R ^b  

^a ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; SPEED; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; EARTH ATMOSPHERE; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLUBILITY; VELOCITY; WATER WAVES; WIND EFFECTS;

AIR SEA FLUX; GAS EXCHANGE; GAS TRANSFER; HIGH WIND SPEED; LONG-TERM RELATIONSHIPS; LOW WIND SPEED; OCEANIC UPTAKE; THEORETICAL FOUNDATIONS;

WIND; CLIMATOLOGY;

AIR SEA GAS TRANSFER; CUBIC RELATIONSHIP; WIND SPEED;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; GAS EXCHANGE; WIND VELOCITY;

EID: 0032735098     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL900363     Document Type: Article

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