Publication Date:
2001-07-21
Description:
A combination of ship, buoy, and satellite observations in the tropical Pacific during the period from 1992 to 2000 provides a basin-scale perspective on the net effects of El Nino and La Nina on biogeochemical cycles. New biological production during the 1997-99 El Nino/La Nina period varied by more than a factor of 2. The resulting interannual changes in global carbon sequestration associated with the El Nino/La Nina cycle contributed to the largest known natural perturbation of the global carbon cycle over these time scales.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Notes: 〈/span〉Turk, D -- McPhaden, M J -- Busalacchi, A J -- Lewis, M R -- New York, N.Y. -- Science. 2001 Jul 20;293(5529):471-4.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Author address: 〈/span〉Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, Nova Scotia, Canada B3H 4J1.〈br /〉〈span class="detail_caption"〉Record origin:〈/span〉 〈a href="http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11463910" target="_blank"〉PubMed〈/a〉
Keywords:
Atmosphere
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*Biomass
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Carbon/*metabolism
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Carbon Dioxide
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Pacific Ocean
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Phytoplankton/*metabolism
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Satellite Communications
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Temperature
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*Tropical Climate
Print ISSN:
0036-8075
Electronic ISSN:
1095-9203
Topics:
Biology
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Chemistry and Pharmacology
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Computer Science
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Medicine
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Natural Sciences in General
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Physics
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