Oxygen minimum zones in the eastern tropical Atlantic and Pacific oceans

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 77, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 331-350

  Karstensen, Johannes ^a   Stramma, Lothar ^a   Visbeck, Martin ^a  

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

Author keywords

Eastern Atlantic; Eastern Pacific; Eastern tropical Atlantic; Eastern tropical Pacific; Oxygen minimum zones; Suboxic; Tropical Atlantic; Tropical Pacific; Water age; Water mass spreading

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DENSITY (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; VENTILATION;

EASTERN ATLANTIC; EASTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONES (OMZ); TROPICAL ATLANTIC; WATER AGE; WATER MASS SPREADING;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABUNDANCE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GEOGRAPHICAL REGION; OCEAN COLOR; OXYGEN CONSUMPTION; UPWELLING; WATER MASS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 44749092326     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2007.05.009     Document Type: Article

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