A carbon budget for the Barents Sea

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 12, 2010, Pages 1532-1542

  Kivimäe, Caroline ^a   Bellerby, Richard G J ^a   Fransson, Agneta ^b   Reigstad, Marit ^c   Johannessen, Truls ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GOTHENBURG   (Sweden)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TROMSØ   (Norway)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; Budget; Carbon dioxide; Dissolved inorganic carbon; Fluxes; Organic carbon

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; ARCTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC WATER; ATMOSPHERIC CO; BARENTS SEA; BUDGET; CARBON BUDGETS; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ERROR CALCULATIONS; EXPORT PRODUCTION; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SUBSURFACE WATERS; TOTAL BUDGET; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; TOTAL UPTAKE; VOLUME FLOW;

ADVECTION; ARCTIC ENGINEERING; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; BUDGET CONTROL; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLUTION;

ORGANIC CARBON;

BURIAL (GEOLOGY); CARBON BUDGET; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON FLUX; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; VOLUME TRANSPORT; WATER MASS;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

EID: 78549246147     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2010.05.006     Document Type: Article

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