Dimethylsulphide, clouds, and phytoplankton: Insights from a simple plankton ecosystem feedback model

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Cropp, Roger ^a   Norbury, John ^b   Braddock, Roger ^a  

^a GRIFFITH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLOUDS; ECOSYSTEMS; HEURISTIC METHODS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NITROGEN; PHYTOPLANKTON;

CLIMATE EFFECT; CLOUD; DIMETHYLSULFIDE; DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; HEURISTICS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; PERTURBATION; PHYTOPLANKTON;

EID: 34548210997     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GB002812     Document Type: Article

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