Humic substances may control dissolved iron distributions in the global ocean: Implications from numerical simulations

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 27, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 450-462

  Misumi, Kazuhiro ^a   Lindsay, Keith ^b   Moore, J Keith ^c   Doney, Scott C ^d   Tsumune, Daisuke ^a   Yoshida, Yoshikatsu ^a  

^a CENTRAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF ELECTRIC POWER INDUSTRY   (Japan)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

general circulation model; iron; organic ligands

Indexed keywords

DISSOLUTION; IRON; LIGANDS;

APPARENT OXYGEN UTILIZATIONS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; DEEP OCEAN WATER; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; LIGAND CONCENTRATION; OCEAN GENERAL CIRCULATION MODELS; ORGANIC LIGANDS; SIMULATED DISTRIBUTION;

RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GLOBAL OCEAN; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; IRON; LIGAND; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL;

EID: 84881096377     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/gbc.20039     Document Type: Article

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