Global deep ocean oxygenation by enhanced ventilation in the Southern Ocean under long-term global warming

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 29, Issue 10, 2015, Pages 1801-1815

  Yamamoto, A ^a   Abe Ouchi, A ^a   Shigemitsu, M ^b,c   Oka, A ^a   Takahashi, K ^c   Ohgaito, R ^c   Yamanaka, Y ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

Author keywords

dissolved oxygen; long term climate change; ocean biogeochemical modeling; open ocean deep convection; Weddell Sea

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CARBON DIOXIDE; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; GLOBAL OCEAN; GLOBAL WARMING; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OCEANIC CONVECTION; OPEN OCEAN; ORGANIC MATTER; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; OXYGENATION; REMINERALIZATION; VENTILATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 84947018725     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: 19449224     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GB005181     Document Type: Article

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