Dissolved methane distribution in the South Pacific and the Southern Ocean in austral summer

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 7, 2011, Pages

  Yoshida, Osamu ^a,b   Inoue, Hisayuki Y ^a   Watanabe, Shuichi ^c   Suzuki, Koji ^a   Noriki, Shinichiro ^a  

^a HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b RAKUNO GAKUEN UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE CONTROL; CHLOROPHYLL; METHANATION; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ANTARCTIC KRILL; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; CHLOROPHYLL A; DISSOLVED METHANE; ICE ZONES; METHANOGENESIS; POLAR FRONT; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUBSURFACE LAYER; SUBTROPICAL FRONT; WATER COLUMNS; WIDE AREA; WIND SPEED;

METHANE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CRUSTACEAN; DISSOLVED GAS; GRAZING; INTERPOLATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; METHANE; METHANOGENESIS; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SUMMER; WATER COLUMN; WIND VELOCITY; ZOOPLANKTON;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTH); SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 79960232308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC006089     Document Type: Article

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