Sensitivity of ocean acidification and oxygen to the uncertainty in climate change

Environmental Research Letters

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2014, Pages

  Cao, Long ^a,b   Wang, Shuangjing ^a   Zheng, Meidi ^a   Zhang, Han ^a  

^a ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b Second Institute of Oceanography   (China)

Author keywords

climate change; Earth system model; ocean acidification; oxygen

Indexed keywords

ACIDIFICATION; ALKALINITY; ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATION; CLIMATE MODELS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; EARTH (PLANET); OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; PH;

CLIMATE SENSITIVITY; DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; DISSOLVED OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL OF INTERMEDIATE COMPLEXITY; OCEAN ACIDIFICATIONS; OCEAN VENTILATIONS; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ACIDIFICATION; ALKALINITY; AQUATIC ORGANISM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBONATE; CLIMATE CHANGE; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DISSOLVED INORGANIC CARBON; ECOLOGICAL MODELING; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; OXYGEN; POLLUTION EFFECT; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 84903624690     PISSN: None     EISSN: 17489326     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1748-9326/9/6/064005     Document Type: Article

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