Articles | Volume 11, issue 4
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-1177-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-1177-2014
Research article
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27 Feb 2014
Research article |  | 27 Feb 2014

Dynamics of particulate organic carbon flux in a global ocean model

I. D. Lima, P. J. Lam, and S. C. Doney

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