Articles | Volume 13, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2971-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-2971-2016
Research article
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20 May 2016
Research article |  | 20 May 2016

Biogeochemical characteristics of a long-lived anticyclonic eddy in the eastern South Pacific Ocean

Marcela Cornejo D'Ottone, Luis Bravo, Marcel Ramos, Oscar Pizarro, Johannes Karstensen, Mauricio Gallegos, Marco Correa-Ramirez, Nelson Silva, Laura Farias, and Lee Karp-Boss

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