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Decline in global oceanic oxygen content during the past five decades

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  • Sunke Schmidtko

    (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel)

  • Lothar Stramma

    (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel)

  • Martin Visbeck

    (GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
    Kiel University)

Abstract

The oxygen content of the global ocean has decreased by more than two per cent over the past five decades, with large variations found in different ocean basins and at different ocean depths.

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  • Sunke Schmidtko & Lothar Stramma & Martin Visbeck, 2017. "Decline in global oceanic oxygen content during the past five decades," Nature, Nature, vol. 542(7641), pages 335-339, February.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:542:y:2017:i:7641:d:10.1038_nature21399
    DOI: 10.1038/nature21399
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