A ventilation-based framework to explain the regeneration-scavenging balance of iron in the ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 20, 2014, Pages 7227-7236

  Tagliabue, Alessandro ^a   Williams, Richard G ^a   Rogan, Nicholas ^a   Achterberg, Eric P ^b   Boyd, Philip W ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^b GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

biogeochemistry; iron; ocean; ventilation

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; IRON; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BINDING LIGANDS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELING; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; OCEAN; POTENTIAL DENSITY; STRINGENT TEST; SUBSURFACE SOURCE; SURFACE MIXED LAYERS;

VENTILATION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DATA SET; DISSOLVED LOAD; HYDROTHERMAL ACTIVITY; IRON; LIGAND; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOSPHATE; VENTILATION;

EID: 84911437375     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061066     Document Type: Article

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