Interannual variability of air-sea O2 fluxes and the determination of CO2 sinks using atmospheric O2/N2

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 30, Issue 3, 2003, Pages

  McKinley, Galen A ^a   Follows, Michael J ^a   Marshall, John ^a   Fan, Song Miao ^b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOCHEMISTRY; NITROGEN; OXYGEN;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY;

OCEAN ENGINEERING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; OXYGEN; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

EID: 0038674962     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016044     Document Type: Article

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