Fluxes of soot black carbon to South Atlantic sediments

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 23, Issue 1, 2009, Pages

  Lohmann, Rainer ^a   Bollinger, Kevyn ^a   Cantwell, Mark ^b   Feichter, Johann ^c   Fischer Bruns, Irene ^c   Zabel, Matthias ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

^b Atlantic Ecology Division National Health and Environmental Effects Research Laboratory   (United States)

^c MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR METEOROLOGY   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMAZON RIVER; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITIONS; BLACK CARBON; DEEP SEA SEDIMENT; DRY WEIGHT; FLUX RATES; LOW CONCENTRATIONS; MASS BALANCE; MODEL SIMULATION; OCEAN-ATMOSPHERE; PAH RATIO; PYROGENIC ORIGINS; SEDIMENTATION RATES; SOUTH AMERICA; SOUTH ATLANTIC; STABLE CARBON ISOTOPE RATIO; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRAFFIC EMISSIONS; WOOD BURNING;

AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; CARBON BLACK; DUST; FIRE HAZARDS; LANDFORMS; METEOROLOGICAL PROBLEMS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; POLYCYCLIC AROMATIC HYDROCARBONS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SOOT;

ORGANIC CARBON;

BLACK CARBON; CARBON ISOTOPE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ISOTOPIC RATIO; MARINE SEDIMENT; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SOOT; STABLE ISOTOPE; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TRAFFIC EMISSION;

AFRICA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTH); CONGO RIVER; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 67249162156     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GB003253     Document Type: Article

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