Global patterns of dissolved silica export to the coastal zone: Results from a spatially explicit global model

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 23, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Beusen, A H W ^a   Bouwman, A F ^a,b   Durr H H ^c   Dekkers, A L M ^d   Hartmann, J ^e  

^a PBL NETHERLANDS ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^c UTRECHT UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE FOR PUBLIC HEALTH AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CROSS VALIDATION; DISSOLVED SILICA; GLOBAL MODELS; GLOBAL PATTERNS; INDIAN OCEAN; MODEL VARIABLES; MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSION MODELS; PACIFIC OCEAN; RIVER BASINS; SOIL BULK DENSITY; SOUTH AMERICA; SPATIAL SCALE; SPATIALLY EXPLICIT; TEMPORAL SCALE; VOLCANIC LITHOLOGY;

COASTAL ENGINEERING; DISSOLUTION; GEOLOGIC MODELS; LINEAR REGRESSION; LITHOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; RIVERS; SILICA; WATERSHEDS;

COASTAL ZONES;

BULK DENSITY; COASTAL ZONE; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GLOBAL OCEAN; MULTIPLE REGRESSION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); RIVER BASIN; RIVER DISCHARGE; SILICA; SLOPE; VOLCANIC SOIL;

ASIA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 70449652607     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008GB003281     Document Type: Article

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