Glacier tongue calving reduced dense water formation and enhanced carbon uptake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 904-909

  Shadwick, E H ^a   Rintoul, S R ^a,b,c,d   Tilbrook, B ^a,b   Williams, G D ^a   Young, N ^a,e   Fraser, A D ^a   Marchant, H ^f   Smith, J ^g   Tamura, T ^a,h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

^c Bureau of Meteorology Centre for Australian Weather and Climate Research   (Australia)

^d Wealth from Oceans National Research Flagship   (Australia)

^e AUSTRALIAN ANTARCTIC DIVISION   (Australia)

^f AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^g GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^h NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF POLAR RESEARCH   (Japan)

Author keywords

carbon uptake; dense water formation; glacier calving

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; CARBON UPTAKE; CARBONATE SATURATIONS; DENSE SHELF WATER; DENSE WATERS; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; REGIONAL DISTRIBUTION; SEA ICE FORMATIONS;

CARBON; STREAM FLOW; WATER LEVELS;

SEA ICE;

CARBON; CARBONATE; CIRCULATION; DENSE WATER; DILUTION; GLACIER; MELTWATER; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; OVERTURN; SALINITY; SEA ICE;

ANTARCTICA; EAST ANTARCTICA; MERTZ GLACIER; PACIFIC OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84876791728     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50178     Document Type: Article

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