Variability of the oxygen minimum zone in the tropical North Pacific during the late twentieth century

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 27, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 1119-1128

  Ito, Takamitsu ^a   Deutsch, Curtis ^b  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

climate variability; ocean biogeochemical modeling; oxygen minimum zone

Indexed keywords

APPARENT OXYGEN UTILIZATIONS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELING; CLIMATE VARIABILITY; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; MULTIDECADAL VARIABILITY; OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMISTRY MODELS; OXYGEN MINIMUM ZONE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; STREAM FLOW; TROPICS;

OXYGEN SUPPLY;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; DECADAL VARIATION; NONLINEARITY; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; OXYGENATION; RESPIRATION; THERMOCLINE; TIMESCALE; TWENTIETH CENTURY; UPWELLING;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84887886494     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GB004567     Document Type: Article

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