Monitoring and interpreting the ocean uptake of atmospheric CO2

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 369, Issue 1943, 2011, Pages 1997-2008

  Watson, Andrew J ^a   Metzl, Nicolas ^b   Schuster, Ute ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

Atmospheric oxygen; Carbon cycle; CO2; Greenhouse gases

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; ATMOSPHERIC OXYGEN; BASIN SCALE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; CO2; EARLY WARNING; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGES; HUMAN INFLUENCES; INDIAN OCEAN; LAND VEGETATION; NORTH ATLANTIC; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TIME-SCALES;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; CLIMATOLOGY; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; OCEANOGRAPHY; VEGETATION;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

EID: 79957609021     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2011.0060     Document Type: Article

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