Impact of physical processes on the seasonal distribution of the fugacity of CO2 in the western tropical Atlantic

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 646-663

  Lefèvre, Nathalie ^a,b   Urbano, Domingos F ^c   Gallois, Francis ^d   Diverrès, Denis ^e  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^b Instituto de Ciências do Mar LABOMAR   (Brazil)

^c INSTITUTO NACIONAL DE PESQUISAS ESPACIAIS   (Brazil)

^d INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^e IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

Author keywords

tropical Atlantic

Indexed keywords

OCEANOGRAPHY; TROPICS;

INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NORTH EQUATORIAL COUNTERCURRENT; NORTH EQUATORIAL CURRENT; SEASONAL DISTRIBUTIONS; SOUTH EQUATORIAL CURRENTS; TROPICAL ATLANTIC; WESTERN TROPICAL ATLANTIC;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CARBON DIOXIDE; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); SATURATION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84900363435     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013JC009248     Document Type: Article

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