Recent change in the oceanic uptake rate of anthropogenic carbon in the North Pacific subpolar region determined by using a carbon-13 time series

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Watanabe, Yutaka W ^a   Chiba, Takeshi ^a   Tanaka, Takayuki ^a,b  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b JAPAN ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-CARBON; ALMOST CONSISTENT; ANTHROPOGENIC CARBON; ATMOSPHERIC CO; CARBON-BASED; CONSERVATIVE TRACERS; EXPECTED VALUES; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN STRATIFICATION; OCEANIC UPTAKE; SEA OF OKHOTSK; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTIONS;

TIME SERIES;

ALKALINITY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; PACIFIC DECADAL OSCILLATION; POLAR REGION; STRATIFICATION; TIME SERIES; VERTICAL DISTRIBUTION; WATER COLUMN;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 79951493271     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006199     Document Type: Article

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