An observing system simulation for Southern Ocean carbon dioxide uptake

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 372, Issue 2019, 2014, Pages

  Majkut, Joseph D ^a   Carter, Brendan R ^a   Frölicher, Thomas L ^b   Dufour, Carolina O ^a   Rodgers, Keith B ^a   Sarmiento, Jorge L ^a  

^a PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Carbon; Observational system simulation experiment; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CLIMATE CHANGE; EXPERIMENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

FOSSIL FUEL EMISSIONS; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OCEAN BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; OCEANIC UPTAKE OF ANTHROPOGENIC CO; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SYSTEM SIMULATIONS; TRANSIENT CLIMATE CHANGE;

CARBON DIOXIDE;

CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; SEA WATER;

ARCTIC; ARTICLE; CHEMISTRY; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE COVER; OBSERVATIONAL SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENT; SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; THEORETICAL MODEL; WIND;

CARBON; OBSERVATIONAL SYSTEM SIMULATION EXPERIMENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ARCTIC REGIONS; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE COVER; MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; SEAWATER; WIND;

EID: 84903649805     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2013.0046     Document Type: Article

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