Seasonal variations in the aragonite saturation state in the upper open-ocean waters of the North Pacific Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4498-4506

  Kim, Tae Wook ^a   Park, Geun Ha ^a   Kim, Dongseon ^a   Lee, Kitack ^b   Feely, Richard A ^c   Millero, Frank J ^d  

^a Korea Research Institute of Ships and Ocean Engineering   (South Korea)

^b Pohang University of Science and Technology (POSTECH)   (South Korea)

^c NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

aragonite saturation state; fossil fuel CO2; mutiple linear regression; North Pacific Ocean; ocean acidification

Indexed keywords

CARBON; CARBONATE MINERALS; CLIMATOLOGY; LINEAR REGRESSION; QUALITY CONTROL;

MULTIPLE LINEAR REGRESSIONS; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; OCEAN ACIDIFICATIONS; SATURATION STATE; SEASONAL CHANGES; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEASONAL VARIATION; THERMOCLINE DEPTH;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACIDIFICATION; ALGORITHM; ARAGONITE; CARBON DIOXIDE; FOSSIL FUEL; OPEN OCEAN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SATURATION; SEASONAL VARIATION; SEAWATER; THERMOCLINE; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER CHEMISTRY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 84934443382     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL063602     Document Type: Article

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