Shifts in biogenic carbon flow from particulate to dissolved forms under high carbon dioxide and warm ocean conditions

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Kim, Ja Myung ^a   Lee, Kitack ^a   Shin, Kyungsoon ^b   Yang, Eun Jin ^b   Engel, Anja ^c   Karl, David M ^d   Kim, Hyun Cheol ^a  

^a Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^b Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^c ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL MATERIALS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; DISSOLUTION; EXPERIMENTS; FORESTRY; LAKES; OCEANOGRAPHY; TRANSPORTATION;

ATMOSPHERIC CO; CARBON FLOW; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; ELEVATED CO; FUTURE CLIMATE; INORGANIC CARBON; MESOCOSMS; OCEANIC UPTAKE; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; POTENTIAL EFFECTS; SURFACE OCEAN; TEMPERATURE TREATMENTS; TOTAL ORGANIC CARBON; VERTICAL GRADIENTS; VERTICAL TRANSPORTATION; WARM OCEAN; WATER COLUMNS;

ORGANIC CARBON;

ACIDIFICATION; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BIOGENIC MATERIAL; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE VARIATION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL WARMING; MESOCOSM; MIMICRY; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SURFACE WATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; WATER COLUMN;

EID: 79955617681     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047346     Document Type: Article

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