Seasonal variability of carbon dioxide, nutrients and oxygen in the northern North Atlantic surface water: observations and a modelFootnote^*

* This paper was presented at the CACGP/IAMAP Conference on Atmospheric Carbon Dioxide. its Sources, Sinks and Global Transport, in Kandersteg, Switzerland, September 2-6, 1985. Other papers from this meeting were published in a special issue of Tel/us 39B, 1-2.

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