Seasonal and interannual variability of sedimentation and organic matter distribution in the Buor-Khaya Gulf: The primary recipient of input from Lena River and coastal erosion in the southeast Laptev Sea

Biogeosciences

Volumn 8, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 2581-2594

  Charkin, A N ^a   Dudarev, O V ^a   Semiletov, I P ^a,b   Kruhmalev, A V ^a   Vonk, J E ^c   Sánchez García, Laura ^c   Karlsson, E ^c   Gustafsson, O ^c  

^a IL ICHEV PACIFIC OCEANOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCUMULATION; ANNUAL VARIATION; CARBON FLUX; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL EROSION; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; HYDROMETEOROLOGY; ICE FREE CORRIDOR; LAND-SEA INTERACTION; LOESS; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PERMAFROST; PLEISTOCENE; REMOBILIZATION; RIVER DISCHARGE; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; SORTING; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER; TERRIGENOUS DEPOSIT; WARMING; WATER COLUMN;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BUOR-KHAYA GULF; LAPTEV SEA; LENA RIVER; RUSSIAN FEDERATION;

KHAYA;

EID: 84884676264     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-8-2581-2011     Document Type: Article

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