Contribution to the global air–sea CO2 exchange budget from asymmetric bubble-mediated gas transfer

Xin Zhang

doi:10.3402/tellusb.v64i0.17260

Contribution to the global air–sea CO2 exchange budget from asymmetric bubble-mediated gas transfer

Tellus B: Chemical and Physical Meteorology

Volume 64 (2012): Issue 1

By: Xin Zhang

Open Access

|Jan 2012

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