Where is mineral ballast important for surface export of particulate organic carbon in the ocean'

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 23, 2014, Pages 8460-8468

  Le Moigne, Frédéric A C ^a   Pabortsava, Katsiaryna ^b   Marcinko, Charlotte L J ^a   Martin, Patrick ^b,c   Sanders, Richard J ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^c NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CARBON; OCEANOGRAPHY; ORGANIC CARBON;

234THORIUM; CARBON CYCLE MODELS; CARBON EXPORT; HIGH-LATITUDE REGIONS; PARTICLE FLUXES; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; REGIONAL DIFFERENCES; REGIONAL VARIABILITY;

MINERALS;

CARBON CYCLE; CORRELATION; DEEP SEA; MASS TRANSFER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; REGIONAL PATTERN;

EID: 84921559543     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061678     Document Type: Article

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