Forcings on carbonate system in Northeast Atlantic
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Contrasting effects of temperature and winter mixing on the seasonal and inter-annual variability of the carbonate system in the Northeast Atlantic Ocean C. Dumousseaud, E. P. Achterberg, T. Tyrrell, A. Charalampopoulou, U. Schuster, M. Hartman, and D. J. Hydes National Oceanography Centre, University of Southampton, European Way, Southampton, SO14 3ZH, UK School of Environmental Science, University of East Anglia, Norwich, NR4 7TJ, UK Received: 15 September 2009 – Accepted: 16 September 2009 – Published: 8 October 2009 Correspondence to: E. P. Achterberg ([email protected]) Published by Copernicus Publications on behalf of the European Geosciences Union.
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