Swept under the carpet: Organic matter burial decreases global ocean biogeochemical model sensitivity to remineralization length scale

Biogeosciences

Volumn 10, Issue 12, 2013, Pages 8401-8422

  Kriest, I ^a   Oschlies, A ^a  

^a GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GLOBAL OCEAN; NUMERICAL MODEL; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN; PARAMETERIZATION; PELAGIC ENVIRONMENT; REMINERALIZATION; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84890926893     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-10-8401-2013     Document Type: Article

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