The role of open ocean boundary forcing on seasonal to decadal-scale variability and long-term change of natural shelf hypoxia

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 2, 2011, Pages

  Monteiro, Pedro M S ^a,b   Dewitte, Boris ^c,e   Scranton, Mary I ^d   Paulmier, Aurélien ^c,e   Van Der Plas, Anja K ^f  

^a DSI CSIR Nanotechnology Innovation Centre   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^c LEGOS   (France)

^d STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTO DEL MAR DEL PERÚ   (Peru)

^f NatMIRC   (Namibia)

Author keywords

exchange; natural shelf hypoxia; ocean; seasonal cycle; shelf

Indexed keywords

EID: 79953692030     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/2/025002     Document Type: Article

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