Oxygen minimum zones in the tropical Pacific across CMIP5 models: Mean state differences and climate change trends

Biogeosciences

Volumn 12, Issue 18, 2015, Pages 5429-5454

  Cabre A ^a   Marinov, I ^a   Bernardello, R ^a,b   Bianchi, D ^c,d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EUPHOTIC ZONE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; SOUTHERN HEMISPHERE; TROPICAL REGION; UPPER OCEAN; VENTILATION; WALKER CIRCULATION; WATER MASS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EAST);

EID: 84942244394     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-12-5429-2015     Document Type: Article

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