Articles | Volume 13, issue 10
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3109-2016
https://doi.org/10.5194/bg-13-3109-2016
Research article
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30 May 2016
Research article |  | 30 May 2016

Robotic observations of high wintertime carbon export in California coastal waters

James K. B. Bishop, Michael B. Fong, and Todd J. Wood

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