Influence of (sub)mesoscale eddies on the soft-tissue carbon pump

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 11, 2007, Pages

  Omta, Anne Willem ^a   Kooijman, Bas ^a   Dijkstra, Henk ^b  

^a VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; FLOW FIELDS; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

BAROCLINIC INSTABILITY; CARBON; FLOW FIELD; HYDROSTATICS; MESOSCALE EDDY; NITROGEN; PLANKTON; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 38549174748     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004189     Document Type: Article

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