Upwelling and associated heat flux in the equatorial Atlantic inferred from helium isotope disequilibrium

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 8, 2010, Pages

  Rhein, Monika ^a   Dengler, Marcus ^b   Sültenfu, Jürgen ^a,c   Hummels, Rebecca ^b   Hüttl Kabus, Sabine ^a,c   Bourles, Bernard ^d,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

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

^c FEDERAL MARITIME AND HYDROGRAPHIC AGENCY   (Germany)

^d LEGOS   (France)

^e IRD LEGOS Résidence les Cocotiers ^*  (Benin)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; HEAT FLUX; HELIUM; ISOTOPES; RADIOACTIVITY;

BOX MODELS; EQUATORIAL BANDS; EQUATORIAL UPWELLING; GAS EXCHANGE; HELIUM ISOTOPES; INDIRECT METHODS; MICROSTRUCTURE MEASUREMENTS; MIXED LAYER; MIXING COEFFICIENT; ORDER OF MAGNITUDE; PRODUCTIVITY DISTRIBUTION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL VELOCITY;

VELOCITY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ASYMMETRY; DISEQUILIBRIUM; GAS EXCHANGE; HEAT FLUX; HELIUM ISOTOPE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING; VERTICAL MIXING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 77956079982     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005772     Document Type: Article

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