Dynamics of particle flux and carbon export in the northwestern Mediterranean Sea: A two decade time-series study at the DYFAMED site

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 91, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 461-481

  Miquel, Juan Carlos ^a   Martín, Jacobo ^a   Gasser, Beat ^a,b   Rodriguez y Baena, Alessia ^a,b   Toubal, Tarik ^a,c   Fowler, Scott W ^a,d  

^a INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

^b INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Austria)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^d Institute Bobby   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON CONTENT; CARBON EXPORT; CARBON FLUXES; DATA SERIES; DATA SETS; DEEP SEA; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MAJOR ELEMENTS; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; NORTHWESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; ORGANIC CARBON FLUXES; PARTICLE FLUXES; POC FLUX; SEASONAL PATTERNS; SINKING PARTICLES; TRANSPORT OF PARTICLES; UPPER OCEAN; WATER COLUMNS; WINTER MONTHS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CARBON;

ORGANIC CARBON;

CARBON FLUX; DATA SET; FLUX MEASUREMENT; MASS TRANSFER; MIXING; MOORING SYSTEM; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICLE MOTION; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SEDIMENT TRAP; TIME SERIES; WATER COLUMN;

LIGURIAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 81455154469     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2011.07.018     Document Type: Article

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