Evaluating triple oxygen isotope estimates of gross primary production at the Hawaii Ocean Time-series and Bermuda Atlantic Time-series Study sites

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Nicholson, David P ^a   Stanley, Rachel H R ^a   Barkan, Eugeni ^b   Karl, David M ^c   Luz, Boaz ^b   Quay, Paul D ^d   Doney, Scott C ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTIMATION; ISOTOPES; PRODUCTIVITY; STREAM FLOW;

FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GROSS PRIMARY PRODUCTION; MIXED LAYER; MIXED-LAYER MODELS; MODEL RESULTS; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; OXYGEN ISOTOPES; OXYGEN ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; PHOTOSYNTHETIC RATE; PHYSICAL DYNAMICS; PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH; PRODUCTIVITY RATIOS; SEASONAL THERMOCLINE; STUDY SITES; TRACER METHODS; VARIABLE RATIO;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN; ENTRAINMENT; GROWTH RATE; ISOTOPIC ANALYSIS; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; MIXED LAYER; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; OXYGEN ISOTOPE; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; THERMOCLINE; TIME SERIES; TRACER;

BERMUDA; HAWAIIAN ISLANDS;

EID: 84861157753     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006856     Document Type: Article

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