Impact of oceanic processes on the carbon cycle during the last termination

Climate of the Past

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 149-170

  Bouttes, N ^a,b   Paillard, D ^a   Roche, D M ^a,c   Waelbroeck, C ^a   Kageyama, M ^a   Lourantou, A ^d   Michel, E ^a   Bopp, L ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^c VU UNIVERSITY AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPLITUDE; BIOLOGICAL PUMP; BIOSPHERE; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE; CLIMATE MODELING; DATA SET; DIFFUSION; ICE CORE; ICE SHEET; NUMERICAL MODEL; SEA ICE; SEA LEVEL; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; VERTICAL MIXING;

EID: 84881074472     PISSN: 18149324     EISSN: 18149332     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/cp-8-149-2012     Document Type: Article

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