Declining ocean chlorophyll under unabated anthropogenic CO2 emissions

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Hofmann, M ^a   Worm, B ^b   Rahmstorf, S ^a   Schellnhuber, H J ^a  

^a POTSDAM INSTITUTE FOR CLIMATE IMPACT RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

climate change; ocean biogeochemistry; phytoplankton; thermohaline circulation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80053516586     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/6/3/034035     Document Type: Article

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