Exact evaluation of gross photosynthetic production from the oxygen triple-isotope composition of O2: Implications for the net-to-gross primary production ratios

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 14, 2011, Pages

  Prokopenko, Maria G ^a   Pauluis, Olivier M ^b   Granger, Julie ^c   Yeung, Laurence Y ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ERRORS; ISOTOPES;

ISOTOPE COMPOSITIONS; ISOTOPE MEASUREMENTS; NET COMMUNITY PRODUCTIONS; NET TO GROSS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PRODUCTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RELATIVE ERRORS; UPPER OCEAN;

ESTIMATION;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUMERICAL MODEL; OPEN OCEAN; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; UPPER OCEAN;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 79960216845     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047652     Document Type: Article

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