Oceanic ventilation and biogeochemical cycling: Understanding the physical mechanisms that produce realistic distributions of tracers and productivity

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 18, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1-17

  Gnanadesikan, Anand ^a   Dunne, John P ^a   Key, Robert M ^b   Matsumoto, Katsumi ^c   Sarmiento, Jorge L ^b   Slater, Richard D ^b   Swathi, P S ^d  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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

^d SURFACE ENGINEERING DIVISION   (India)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical cycles; Particle export; Vertical exchange

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION;

EID: 15944377805     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003GB002097     Document Type: Article

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