Modeling the dissolution of settling CaCO3 in the ocean

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 16, Issue 2, 2002, Pages

  Jansen, Heiko ^a   Zeebe, Richard E ^a   Wolf Gladrow, Dieter A ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Aragonite; CaCO3; Calcite; Marine snow; Modeling; Water column dissolution

Indexed keywords

ARAGONITE; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CALCIUM CARBONATE; CARBON CYCLE; DISSOLUTION; MARINE SNOW; OCEAN; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 0036626904     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000gb001279     Document Type: Article

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