An inverse relationship between production and export efficiency in the Southern Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 8, 2013, Pages 1557-1561

  Maiti, Kanchan ^a   Charette, Matthew A ^b   Buesseler, Ken O ^b   Kahru, Mati ^c  

^a LOUISIANA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

biological pump; carbon export; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PUMPS; CARBON EXPORT; COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS; DRIFTING SEDIMENT TRAPS; INCREASING PRODUCTION; INVERSE RELATIONSHIP; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SURFACE PRODUCTIVITY;

CARBON; EFFICIENCY; ESTIMATION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; CARBON FLUX; DATA ACQUISITION; DRIFT BEHAVIOR; ESTIMATION METHOD; FLOW MODELING; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PARAMETERIZATION; SEDIMENT TRAP;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84877945388     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50219     Document Type: Article

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