The contribution of coccolithophores to the optical and inorganic carbon budgets during the Southern Ocean Gas Exchange Experiment: New evidence in support of the Great Calcite Belt hypothesis

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 8, 2011, Pages

  Balch, W M ^a   Drapeau, D T ^a   Bowler, B C ^a   Lyczskowski, E ^b   Booth, E S ^a   Alley, D ^a  

^a BIGELOW LABORATORY FOR OCEAN SCIENCES   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CALCITE; CARBON; CARBONATE MINERALS; EXPERIMENTS; REFLECTION; SILICA;

ACID-LABILE; AUSTRAL SUMMERS; BIOGENIC SILICA; COCCOLITHOPHORES; COCCOLITHOPHORIDS; GAS EXCHANGE; INORGANIC CARBON; MICROBUBBLES; OPTICAL OBSERVATIONS; POLAR FRONT; REFLECTANCE MEASUREMENTS; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STUDY SITES; SUBTROPICAL FRONT; TIME-SCALES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BACKSCATTER; BIOGENIC MATERIAL; CALCITE; COCCOLITH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GAS EXCHANGE; INORGANIC CARBON; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MICROSCOPY; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIOMETRIC METHOD; REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBTROPICAL REGION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 80051679964     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC006941     Document Type: Article

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