Nutrient enrichment of the subarctic Pacific Ocean pycnocline

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 10, 2013, Pages 2200-2205

  Whitney, Frank A ^a   Bograd, Steven J ^b   Ono, Tsuneo ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

Author keywords

nutrient cycling; oxygen transport; subarctic Pacific; time series

Indexed keywords

GLOBAL THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENTS; OXYGEN TRANSPORT; SUBARCTIC PACIFIC; SUBARCTIC PACIFIC OCEAN; SURFACE LAYERS; SURFACE OCEAN;

CLIMATE MODELS; NITRATES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN;

NUTRIENTS;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; OXYGEN; PYCNOCLINE; SURFACE LAYER; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SUBARCTIC); SEA OF OKHOTSK;

EID: 84879958598     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50439     Document Type: Article

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