The case against climate regulation via oceanic phytoplankton sulphur emissions

Nature

Volumn 480, Issue 7375, 2011, Pages 51-56

  Quinn, P K ^a   Bates, T S ^a  

^a NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYL SULFIDE; ORGANIC MATTER; SEA WATER; SODIUM CHLORIDE; SURFACE WATER;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ALBEDO; BOUNDARY LAYER; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; EMISSION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYTOPLANKTON; SULFIDE; SULFUR;

AEROSOL; ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; CLOUD CONDENSATION NUCLEUS; CONCENTRATION (PARAMETERS); GREENHOUSE EFFECT; MARINE BOUNDARY LAYER; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; METEOROLOGICAL PHENOMENA; NONHUMAN; OXIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE; WATER VAPOR; WIND;

ATMOSPHERE; CLIMATE; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SULFIDES; SULFUR;

EID: 82555195554     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10580     Document Type: Review

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