Seasonal and inter-annual variability of particulate organic matter in the global ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 24, 2002, Pages

  Loisel, Hubert ^a   Nicolas, Jean Marc ^a   Deschamps, Pierre Yves ^a   Frouin, Robert ^b  

^a Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; CARBON; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; INVERSE PROBLEMS; ORGANIC CARBON; PHASE SHIFT; PHASE SHIFTERS;

ANNUAL CYCLE; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INVERSE MODELING; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC MATTERS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS;

EID: 0038066506     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL015948     Document Type: Article

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