Is AOU a good measure of respiration in the oceans?

Is AOU a good measure of respiration in the oceans?

Apparent Oxygen Utilization (AOU) is widely used to infer respiration in the oceans by assuming that surface oxygen concentration is close to saturation with the overlying atmosphere. However, significant disequilibrium of oxygen has been observed in high latitude surface oceans where the deep water...

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Main Authors: Follows, Michael J (Contributor), Boyle, Edward A (Contributor), Ito, Takamitsu (Contributor)
Other Authors: Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Department of Earth, Atmospheric, and Planetary Sciences (Contributor), Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Program in Atmospheres, Oceans, and Climate (Contributor), Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (Contributor)
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: American Geophysical Union (AGU), 2017-01-10T17:10:16Z.
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