Atlantic Southern Ocean productivity: Fertilization from above or below?

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 21, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Meskhidze, Nicholas ^a,b   Nenes, Athanasios ^a,c   Chameides, William L ^d   Luo, Chao ^d   Mahowald, Natalie ^e  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; DUST; IRON; OCEANOGRAPHY;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BIOAVAILABILITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPHYLL; CONTINENTAL MARGIN; DEPOSITION; IRON; NUTRIENT CYCLING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SURFACE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; SOUTH AMERICA;

ALGAE;

EID: 34548217818     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006GB002711     Document Type: Article

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