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Closure of the Global Overturning Circulation Through the Indian, Pacific, and Southern Oceans: Schematics and Transports

L. Talley

2013.3.1OCEANOGRAPHY

DOI: 10.5670/oceanog.2013.07

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This paper assesses the extent and variability of ocean's HNLC regions using novel statistical methods, identifying new linkages with climate variability indices.

Abstract

This paper applies several novel statistical methods to assess the extent and variability of the ocean's three major "high-nutrient / low-chlorophyll" (HNLC) regions. Its novel contributions include articulating a new definition of HNLC in terms of the ratio NO3/Chl, and identifying new linkages between HNLC extent and some climate variability indices.

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TALLEY, L. Closure of the global overturning circulation through the indian, pacific, and southern oceans: Schematics and transports. OCEANOGRAPHY, 2013, 26: 80–97.