Contribution of Southern Ocean surface-water stratification to low atmospheric CO2 concentrations during the last glacial period

Nature

Volumn 389, Issue 6654, 1997, Pages 929-935

  François, Roger ^a   Altabett, Mark A ^b   Yu, Ein Fen ^c   Sigman, Daniel M ^a   Bacon, Michael P ^a   Frank, Martin ^d   Bohrmann, Gerhard ^e   Bareille, Gilles ^f   Labeyrie, Laurent D ^g  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^c NATIONAL TAIWAN NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

^e GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE BORDEAUX   (France)

^g CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIR-SEA FLUX; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON DIOXIDE CONCENTRATION; LAST GLACIAL MAXIMUM; PALAEOCEANOGRAPHY; STRATIFICATION; SURFACE WATER;

AIR QUALITY; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SEDIMENT;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 0346223060     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/40073     Document Type: Article

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