Controlling factors of the oxygen balance in the Arabian Sea's OMZ

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 12, 2012, Pages 5095-5109

  Resplandy, L ^a   Levy M ^b   Bopp, L ^a   Echevin, V ^b   Pous, S ^c   Sarma, V V S S ^d   Kumar, D ^d  

^a Orme Merisiers Bat 709 CE S   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^c MUSÉUM NATIONAL D'HISTOIRE NATURELLE   (France)

^d NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BIOPHYSICS; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE EFFECT; CLIMATE MODELING; COASTAL ZONE; EKMAN PUMPING; GLOBAL CLIMATE; KELVIN WAVE; OXYGEN; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; ROSSBY WAVE; SEASONALITY; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS; TIMESCALE; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; OMAN; SOMALI CURRENT;

EID: 84871382348     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-5095-2012     Document Type: Article

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