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Southern Ocean Seasonal Cycle Experiment 2012: Seasonal scale climate and carbon cycle links

Sebastiaan Swart, Nicolette Chang, Nicolas Fauchereau, Warren Joubert, Mike Lucas, Thato Mtshali, Alakendra Roychoudhury, Alessandro Tagliabue, Sandy Thomalla, Howard Waldron, Pedro MS. Monteiro
South African Journal of Science | Vol 108, No 3/4 | a1089 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajs.v108i3/4.1089 | © 2012 Sebastiaan Swart, Nicolette Chang, Nicolas Fauchereau, Warren Joubert, Mike Lucas, Thato Mtshali, Alakendra Roychoudhury, Alessandro Tagliabue, Sandy Thomalla, Howard Waldron, Pedro MS. Monteiro | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 13 January 2012 | Published: 27 March 2012

About the author(s)

Sebastiaan Swart, CSIR, South Africa
Nicolette Chang, CSIR, South Africa
Nicolas Fauchereau, CSIR, South Africa
Warren Joubert, CSIR, South Africa
Mike Lucas, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Thato Mtshali, CSIR, South Africa
Alakendra Roychoudhury, Stellenbosch University, South Africa
Alessandro Tagliabue, CSIR, South Africa
Sandy Thomalla, CSIR, South Africa
Howard Waldron, University of Cape Town, South Africa
Pedro MS. Monteiro, CSIR, South Africa

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Keywords

seasonal cycle; mixed layer depth; biogeochemistry

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