Southern Ocean control of silicon stable isotope distribution in the deep Atlantic Ocean

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  De Souza, Gregory F ^a   Reynolds, Ben C ^a   Rickli, Jrg ^a,b   Frank, Martin ^c   Saito, Mak A ^d   Gerringa, Loes J A ^e   Bourdon, Bernard ^a,f  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^c GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e ROYAL NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SEA RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITÉ DE LYON   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC BOTTOM WATER; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BOTTOM WATER; DATA SETS; DEEP OCEAN; DENMARK STRAIT; DRAKE PASSAGE; HIGH-PRECISION; MERIDIONAL OVERTURNING CIRCULATIONS; NORTH ATLANTIC; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; SI DISTRIBUTION; SI ISOTOPES; SOUTHERN LATITUDES; SOUTHERN OCEAN; STABLE ISOTOPES; STABLE NITROGEN ISOTOPE; SURFACE OCEAN; TWO SOURCES;

BIOACTIVITY; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; ISOTOPES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEAWATER;

SILICON;

ABYSSAL CIRCULATION; BIOACTIVITY; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BOTTOM WATER; DEEP SEA; DISSOLVED MATTER; HOMOGENEITY; INTERMEDIATE WATER; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; ISOTOPIC FRACTIONATION; MODE WATER; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; SILICON; STABLE ISOTOPE;

ARCTIC; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DENMARK STRAIT; DRAKE PASSAGE; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84862569044     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GB004141     Document Type: Article

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