Isopycnal mixing by mesoscale eddies significantly impacts oceanic anthropogenic carbon uptake

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 4249-4255

  Gnanadesikan, Anand ^a   Pradal, Marie Aude ^a   Abernathey, Ryan ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

Author keywords

anthropogenic carbon; Earth System Modeling; isopycnal mixing; satellite altimetry

Indexed keywords

CARBON DIOXIDE; FORESTRY; MIXING;

ANTHROPOGENIC CARBON; ANTHROPOGENIC CARBON DIOXIDE; DIFFUSIVE MODEL; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; INTEGRATED ASSESSMENT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; VERTICAL DIFFUSION;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; CARBON; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; GYRE; ISOPYCNAL LAYER; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXING; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SIMULATION; STRATIFICATION;

EID: 84934444172     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL064100     Document Type: Article

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