The role of Southern Ocean processes in orbital and millennial CO2 variations - A synthesis

Quaternary Science Reviews

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 2010, Pages 193-205

  Fischer, Hubertus ^a,b   Schmitt, Jochen ^a,b   Lüthi, Dieter ^a   Stocker, Thomas F ^a   Tschumi, Tobias ^a   Parekh, Payal ^a   Joos, Fortunat ^a   Köhler, Peter ^b   Völker, Christoph ^b   Gersonde, Rainer ^b   Barbante, Carlo ^c,d   Le Floch, Martine ^d,e   Raynaud, Dominique ^d,e   Wolff, Eric ^e,f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c CA' FOSCARI UNIVERSITY OF VENICE   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC ICE CORE; ATMOSPHERIC CO; BIOLOGICAL CHANGES; CARBON CYCLE MODELS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ICE CORE; IRON FERTILIZATION; LAST GLACIAL; MARINE BIOTA; MARINE SEDIMENTS; NATURAL CO; RECENT PROGRESS; SINGLE PROCESS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE BUOYANCY FLUX; TIME-SCALES; WIND FIELD;

BIOCHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; SEA ICE; SEDIMENTS; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BIOAVAILABILITY; BUOYANCY; EMISSION; ICE CORE; LAST GLACIAL; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NUTRIENT; PALEOCLIMATE; WESTERLY;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 73549097961     PISSN: 02773791     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.quascirev.2009.06.007     Document Type: Article

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