Carbon dioxide effects of Antarctic stratification, North Atlantic Intermediate Water formation, and subantarctic nutrient drawdown during the last ice age: Diagnosis and synthesis in a geochemical box model

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2010, Pages

  Hain, Mathis P ^a,b   Sigman, Daniel M ^a   Haug, Gerald H ^b,c  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^c GEOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC SEA ICE; BOX MODELS; ICE AGE; NORTH ATLANTIC; NUTRIENT CONSUMPTION; SEA-ICE COVER; SOFT TISSUE; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WATER FORMATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE; GEOCHEMISTRY; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; NUTRIENTS; PH; PUMPS; SEA ICE; WATER LEVELS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALKALINITY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE; DEEP SEA; DRAWDOWN; ICE COVER; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; OVERTURN; PLEISTOCENE; SEA ICE; STRATIFICATION; SUBANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 78650091531     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB003790     Document Type: Article

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