Carbonate system in the water masses of the Southeast Atlantic sector of the Southern Ocean during February and March 2008

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 1401-1413

  Gonzalez Davila M ^a   Santana Casiano, J M ^a   Fine, R A ^b   Happell, J ^b   Delille, B ^c   Speich, S ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

^d CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALKALINITY; ANTARCTIC INTERMEDIATE WATER; ARAGONITE; CALCITE; CARBONATE SYSTEM; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; FRONTAL FEATURE; HUMAN ACTIVITY; PH; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; WATER MASS;

AGULHAS CURRENT; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (SOUTHEAST); INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTH AFRICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 79958034640     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-1401-2011     Document Type: Article

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