El Niño/Southern Oscillation (ENSO) related variations in particulate export fluxes in the western and central equatorial Pacific

Journal of Oceanography

Volumn 59, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 663-670

  Kawahata, Hodaka ^a,b   Gupta, Lallan Prasad ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF ADVANCED INDUSTRIAL SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY AIST   (Japan)

^b TOHOKU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Amino acid; Biogenic opal; Carbonate; ENSO cycle (El Ni o southern oscillation); Equatorial Pacific; Organic carbon; Sediment trap; Settling particles; WPWP

Indexed keywords

BIOGENIC DEPOSIT; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBONATE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE FLUX; SEDIMENT TRAP;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0344237087     PISSN: 09168370     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/B:JOCE.0000009595.79408.13     Document Type: Article

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