The Southern Ocean silicon trap: Data-constrained estimates of regenerated silicic acid, trapping efficiencies, and global transport paths

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 313-331

  Holzer, Mark ^a,b   Primeau, François W ^c   DeVries, Timothy ^d   Matear, Richard ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b Columbia University ^*  (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; DISSOLUTION RATES; EQUIVALENT LINEAR MODEL; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OPTIMIZED MODELS; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; TEMPERATURE DEPENDENT; TRAPPING EFFICIENCIES;

SILICON;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOLOGICAL UPTAKE; CLIMATOLOGY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLUTION; EUPHOTIC ZONE; GLOBAL OCEAN; GREEN FUNCTION; MODE WATER; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PHOSPHATE; REMINERALIZATION; SILICIC ACID; SILICON; TRANSPORT PROCESS; WATER DEPTH;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84898929133     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009356     Document Type: Article

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