Do hurricanes cause significant interannual variability in the air-sea CO2 flux of the subtropical North Atlantic?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 7, 2009, Pages

  Koch, Jennifer ^a   McKinley, Galen A ^a   Bennington, Val ^a   Ullman, David ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN MADISON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARIBBEAN SEA; HURRICANE FREQUENCY; HURRICANE SEASON; INFLUENCE SURFACES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; SHORT TIME SCALE; SST ANOMALIES; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; VERTICAL MIXING; WARM SEA; WIND SPEED;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; STORMS; TROPICS;

HURRICANES;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; GYRE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

EID: 67449135589     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037553     Document Type: Article

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