Response of the ocean natural carbon storage to projected twenty-first-century climate change

Journal of Climate

Volumn 27, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 2033-2053

  Bernardello, Raffaele ^a   Marinov, Irina ^a   Palter, Jaime B ^b   Sarmiento, Jorge L ^c   Galbraith, Eric D ^b   Slater, Richard D ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL TRACERS; CONTROL SIMULATION; DEEP-WATER FORMATION; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; NATURAL CARBONS; SURFACE WIND STRESS; TIME-VARYING PERTURBATIONS; VERTICAL GRADIENTS;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BUOYANCY; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; SOLUBILITY; WIND STRESS;

FORESTRY;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CARBON CYCLE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ORGANIC MATTER; SALINITY; SOLUBILITY; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TRACER; TWENTY FIRST CENTURY; WIND STRESS;

EID: 84897644648     PISSN: 08948755     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/JCLI-D-13-00343.1     Document Type: Article

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