Enhanced nutrient supply to the California Current Ecosystem with global warming and increased stratification in an earth system model

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 21, 2010, Pages

  Rykaczewski, Ryan R ^a   Dunne, John P ^b  

^a University Corporation for Atmospheric Research   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EARTH (PLANET); ECOSYSTEMS; GLOBAL WARMING; PRODUCTIVITY;

ANTHROPOGENIC CLIMATE CHANGE]; CALIFORNIA CURRENT; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; DEEP SOURCE WATERS; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; FUTURE CLIMATE; HIGH PRODUCTIVITY; HISTORICAL OBSERVATION; NORTH PACIFIC; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; WIND DRIVEN UPWELLING;

CLIMATE MODELS;

ACIDIFICATION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ECOSYSTEM RESPONSE; EMPIRICAL ANALYSIS; GLOBAL WARMING; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STRATIFICATION; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; UPWELLING; VENTILATION; WIND VELOCITY;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 78649287502     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL045019     Document Type: Article

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