Articles | Volume 11, issue 1
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-75-2014
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-11-75-2014
Research article
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07 Jan 2014
Research article |  | 07 Jan 2014

Observed small spatial scale and seasonal variability of the CO2 system in the Southern Ocean

L. Resplandy, J. Boutin, and L. Merlivat

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