Estimating the monthly pCO2 distribution in the north Atlantic using a self-organizing neural network

Biogeosciences

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 1405-1421

  Telszewski, M ^a   Chazottes, A ^b   Schuster, U ^a   Watson, A J ^a   Moulin, C ^b   Bakker, D C E ^a   Gonzalez Davila M ^c   Johannessen, T ^d   Kortzinger A ^e   Luger H ^f   Olsen, A ^d,h,i   Omar, A ^d   Padin, X A ^g   Rios A F ^g   Steinhoff, T ^e   Santana Casiano, M ^c   Wallace, D W R ^e   Wanninkhof, R ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

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

^f ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^g INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

^h BJERKNES CENTRE FOR CLIMATE RESEARCH   (Norway)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANNUAL VARIATION; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ESTIMATION METHOD; FLUX MEASUREMENT; MAP; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MODIS; RECONSTRUCTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEAWIFS; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 69249091016     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-6-1405-2009     Document Type: Article

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