Basin-wide particulate carbon flux in the Atlantic Ocean: Regional export patterns and potential for atmospheric CO 2 sequestration

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 15, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 845-862

  Antia, Avan N ^a   Koeve, Wolfgang ^a   Fischer, Gerhard ^b   Blanz, Thomas ^a   Schulz Bull, Detlef ^a   Scholten, Jan ^c   Neuer, Susanne ^d   Kremling, Klaus ^a   Kuss, Joachim ^a   Peinert, Rolf ^a   Hebbeln, Dirk ^b   Bathmann, Ulrich ^e   Conte, Maureen ^f   Fehner, Uwe ^a   Zeitzschel, B ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF KIEL   (Germany)

^d ARIZONA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PUMP; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; PARTICULATE FLUX;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 18244404619     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GB001376     Document Type: Article

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