Acceleration of oxygen decline in the tropical Pacific over the past decades by aerosol pollutants

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 9, Issue 6, 2016, Pages 443-447

  Ito, T ^a   Nenes, A ^a,b,c,d   Johnson, M S ^e   Meskhidze, N ^f   Deutsch, C ^g  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b Georgia Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING SCIENCES   (Greece)

^d NATIONAL OBSERVATORY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

^e NASA AMES RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^f NORTH CAROLINA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AEROSOL; AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ANOXIC CONDITIONS; ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCE; ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC POLLUTION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DISSOLVED OXYGEN; IRON; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OXYGEN;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 84973300214     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo2717     Document Type: Article

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