Sustained growth of the Southern Ocean carbon storage in a warming climate

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4516-4522

  Ito, Takamitsu ^a   Bracco, Annalisa ^a   Deutsch, Curtis ^b   Frenzel, Hartmut ^b   Long, Matthew ^c   Takano, Yohei ^a  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

climate change; CMIP 5; MITgcm; ocean carbon uptake; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGY; CLIMATE CHANGE; FORESTRY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WATERS; UPPER ATMOSPHERE;

CARBON UPTAKE; CMIP-5; COUPLED MODEL INTERCOMPARISON PROJECT; MITGCM; OCEAN CIRCULATION; OVERTURNING CIRCULATION; PRE-INDUSTRIAL CONDITIONS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

CLIMATE MODELS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BUOYANCY FORCING; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; GLOBAL OCEAN; NUTRIENT UPTAKE; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; SURFACE WATER; WARMING; WESTERLY;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84934441041     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064320     Document Type: Article

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