Maintaining of the Eastern South Pacific Oxygen Minimum Zone (OMZ) off Chile

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 20, 2006, Pages

  Paulmier, A ^a   Ruiz Pino, D ^a   Garcon V ^b   Farias L ^c  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; COASTAL ZONES; OXYGEN;

EASTERN SOUTH PACIFIC OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; OXYCLINE; OXYGENATED OCEAN;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANOXIC CONDITIONS; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; REMINERALIZATION;

CHILE; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 33845608468     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GL026801     Document Type: Article

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