Is AOU a good measure of respiration in the oceans?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Ito, T ^a   Follows, M J ^a   Boyle, E A ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

4255 Oceanography: General: Numerical modeling; 4805 Oceanography: Biological and chemical: Biogeochemical cycles (1615); 4820 Oceanography: Biological and chemical: Gases

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); ESTIMATION; ICE; OXYGEN; RESPIRATORS; SEA LEVEL; WATER; HEAT FLUX; SEA ICE;

APPARENT OXYGEN UTILIZATION (AOU); SEA ICE COVER; SURFACE OXYGEN CONCENTRATION;

MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; GLOBAL OCEAN; OCEANOGRAPHY; RESPIRATION;

APPARENT OXYGEN UTILIZATIONS; BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELING; HIGH LATITUDES; OXYGEN UTILIZATION; SURFACE HEAT FLUXES; SURFACE OXYGEN; UNDERSATURATION; WATER-MASS FORMATION;

EID: 9744227125     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020900     Document Type: Article

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