Impact of climate change on the northwestern Mediterranean Sea pelagic planktonic ecosystem and associated carbon cycle

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 9, 2014, Pages 5815-5836

  Herrmann, Marine ^a   Estournel, Claude ^b   Adloff, Fanny ^c   Diaz, Frédéric ^d,e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^c CENTRE NATIONAL DE RECHERCHES MÉTÉOROLOGIQUES   (France)

^d AIX MARSEILLE UNIVERSITY   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULON   (France)

Author keywords

carbon cycle; climate change; coupled hydrodynamical biogeochemical modeling; northwestern Mediterranean; pelagic planktonic ecosystem; uncertainty

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CIRCULATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON CYCLE; CLIMATE CHANGE; HYDRODYNAMICS; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PHYTOPLANKTON;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84927656991     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010016     Document Type: Article

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