The δ18O of dissolved O2 as a tracer of mixing and respiration in the mesopelagic ocean

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Levine, Naomi Marcil ^a   Bender, Michael L ^b   Doney, Scott C ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL PROCESS; EUPHOTIC ZONE; ISOPYCNAL SURFACES; ISOTOPE EFFECT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MESOPELAGIC; MODEL SOLUTION; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE; OXYGEN-POOR; RESPIRATION RATE; SOUTH ATLANTIC; TRANSPORT MODELS;

DISSOLUTION; ISOTOPES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE DIFFUSION; TWO DIMENSIONAL;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

ADVECTION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MESOPELAGIC ZONE; MIXING; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; RESPIRATION; TRACER; TWO-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 67249091313     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007GB003162     Document Type: Article

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