Southern Ocean buoyancy forcing of ocean ventilation and glacial atmospheric CO2

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 8, Issue 11, 2015, Pages 861-864

  Watson, Andrew J ^a   Vallis, Geoffrey K ^a   Nikurashin, Maxim ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EXETER   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^c ARC Centre of Excellence for Climate System Science   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC GAS; BUOYANCY; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CIRCULATION MODELING; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DEEP SEA; EDDY; GLACIAL ENVIRONMENT; UPWELLING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 84945936469     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2538     Document Type: Article

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