The impact of global warming on seasonality of ocean primary production

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 4357-4369

  Henson, S ^a   Cole, H ^b   Beaulieu, C ^c   Yool, A ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; BIOME; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLOBAL WARMING; INORGANIC SALT; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHENOLOGY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEASONALITY;

EID: 84876928371     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-4357-2013     Document Type: Article

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