Temporal variations in the partial pressure and flux of CO2 at ocean station P in the subarctic northeast Pacific Ocean

C. S. Wong; Y.-H. Chan

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v43i2.15265

Temporal variations in the partial pressure and flux of CO2 at ocean station P in the subarctic northeast Pacific Ocean

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 43 (1991): Issue 2

By: C. S. Wong and Y.-H. Chan

Open Access

|Jan 1991

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