Oceanic carbon transport carried by freshwater divergence: Are salinity normalizations useful?

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C12, 2001, Pages 30939-30946

  Robbins, Paul E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CYCLE; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; FRESHWATER INPUT; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SALINITY;

EID: 0035722893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc000451     Document Type: Article

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