Can bottom-up ocean CO2 fluxes be reconciled with atmospheric 13C observations?

Tellus, Series B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volumn 62, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 369-388

  Alden, Caroline B ^a   Miller, John B ^a,b   White, James W C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON ISOTOPE; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; ISOTOPIC RATIO; STABLE ISOTOPE;

EID: 77958598960     PISSN: 02806509     EISSN: 16000889     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-0889.2010.00481.x     Document Type: Article

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