Regional impacts of iron-light colimitation in a global biogeochemical model

Biogeosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1043-1064

  Galbraith, E D ^a,c   Gnanadesikan, A ^b   Dunne, J P ^b   Hiscock, M R ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CYTOLOGY; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GROWTH RATE; IRON; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; TRACE ELEMENT; TRACER;

EID: 77949742262     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-7-1043-2010     Document Type: Article

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