DMS air/sea flux and gas transfer coefficients from the North Atlantic summertime coccolithophore bloom

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 35, Issue 23, 2008, Pages

  Marandino, C A ^a   De Bruyn, W J ^b   Miller, S D ^c   Saltzman, E S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b CHAPMAN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c STATE UNIVERSITY OF NEW YORK   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOMS (METAL); CHLOROPHYLL; DIAMONDS; FLOW OF FLUIDS; FLUXES; GASES; OCEAN CURRENTS; PORPHYRINS; SEAWATER; SURFACE CHEMISTRY;

ATLANTIC OCEANS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; COCCOLITHOPHORE; CURRENT ESTIMATES; CURRENT MODELS; DIMETHYL SULFIDES; EDDY COVARIANCES; GAS TRANSFER COEFFICIENTS; GAS TRANSFERS; GAS-EXCHANGE COEFFICIENTS; NEAR SURFACES; NORTH ATLANTIC; PARAMETERIZATIONS; WATER COLUMNS;

SIPHONS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CHLOROPHYLL; COCCOLITH; DIMETHYLSULFIDE; EDDY COVARIANCE; GAS TRANSPORT; PARAMETERIZATION; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); EURASIA; EUROPE; ICELAND; NORTHERN EUROPE; SCANDINAVIA;

HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 60149083395     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GL036370     Document Type: Article

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