Carbon dynamics in the western Arctic Ocean: Insights from full-depth carbon isotope profiles of DIC, DOC, and POC

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1217-1224

  Griffith, D R ^a   McNichol, A P ^a   Xu, L ^a   McLaughlin, F A ^b   MacDonald, R W ^b   Brown, K A ^c   Eglinton, T I ^d  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON BUDGET; CARBON ISOTOPE; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED ORGANIC CARBON; GLOBAL CLIMATE; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MASS BALANCE; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA BASIN;

EID: 84859154592     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-1217-2012     Document Type: Article

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