A more productive, but different, ocean after mitigation

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 22, 2015, Pages 9836-9845

  John, Jasmin G ^a   Stock, Charles A ^a   Dunne, John P ^a  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

ecosystem regime shift; marine primary productivity; reversibility

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; CARBON; CLIMATE MODELS; EARTH (PLANET); ECOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SILICATES; SURFACE WATERS;

DENSITY GRADIENTS; EARTH SYSTEM MODEL; MEAN SEA SURFACES; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; REGIME SHIFT; REVERSIBILITY; SUBSURFACE WATERS;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CLIMATE MODELING; COMMUNITY STRUCTURE; COOLING; LA NINA; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MIXING; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NITRATE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SILICATE; WARMING;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 84956955516     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2015GL066160     Document Type: Article

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