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Overview

Robert M. Key is affiliated with Princeton University in the United States. Their research focuses primarily on earth and planetary sciences with a concentration on oceanography and related environmental processes.

Their work spans various subfields, including:

  • Oceanography
  • Global and Planetary Change
  • Ecology
  • Atmospheric Science
  • Information Systems and Management

The main topics explored in their research include:

  • Marine and coastal ecosystems
  • Marine Biology and Ecology Research
  • Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
  • Atmospheric and Environmental Gas Dynamics
  • Ocean Acidification Effects and Responses
  • Isotope Analysis in Ecology
  • Geology and Paleoclimatology Research

Robert M. Key has contributed to a range of scientific publications, with frequent publication venues as follows:

  • Earth system science data
  • Geophysical Research Letters
  • Nature Geoscience
  • Communications Earth & Environment
  • Radiocarbon

Significant recent papers include:

  • "An updated version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product, GLODAPv2.2020" (2020, Earth system science data)
  • "GLODAPv2.2022: the latest version of the global interior ocean biogeochemical data product" (2022, Earth system science data)
  • "Importance of wind and meltwater for observed chemical and physical changes in the Southern Ocean" (2020, Nature Geoscience)
  • "A global monthly climatology of oceanic total dissolved inorganic carbon: a neural network approach" (2020, Earth system science data)
  • "Supercooled Southern Ocean Waters" (2020, Geophysical Research Letters)

The scientist frequently collaborates with several other researchers, including:

  • Are Olsen
  • Toste Tanhua
  • Alex Kozyr
  • Mario Hoppema
  • Fı́z F. Pérez

Best Publications

  • Anthropogenic ocean acidification over the twenty-first century and its impact on calcifying organisms

    James C. Orr;Victoria J. Fabry;Olivier Aumont;Laurent Bopp

  • The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2.

    Christopher L. Sabine;Richard A. Feely;Nicolas Gruber;Robert M. Key

  • A global ocean carbon climatology: Results from Global Data Analysis Project (GLODAP)

    Robert Key;Alexander Kozyr;Chris Sabine;K. Lee

  • The oceanic sink for anthropogenic CO2 from 1994 to 2007

    Nicolas Gruber;Dominic Clement;Brendan Carter;Brendan Carter;Richard A. Feely

  • The Global Ocean Data Analysis Project version 2 (GLODAPv2) – an internally consistent data product for the world ocean

    Are Olsen;Robert M. Key;Steven van Heuven;Siv K. Lauvset;Siv K. Lauvset

  • Global relationships of total alkalinity with salinity and temperature in surface waters of the world's oceans

    Kitack Lee;Lan T. Tong;Frank J. Millero;Christopher L. Sabine

  • Constraining global air-sea gas exchange for CO2 with recent bomb 14C measurements

    Colm Sweeney;Emanuel Gloor;Andrew R. Jacobson;Robert M. Key

  • A new global interior ocean mapped climatology: the 1° × 1° GLODAP version 2

    Siv Kari Lauvset;Siv Kari Lauvset;Robert M. Key;Are Olsen;Are Olsen;Steven van Heuven

  • Denitrification and N2 fixation in the Pacific Ocean

    Curtis Deutsch;Nicolas Gruber;Robert M. Key;Jorge Louis Sarmiento

  • Estimates of anthropogenic carbon uptake from four three‐dimensional global ocean models

    James C. Orr;Ernst Maier-Reimer;Uwe Mikolajewicz;Patrick Monfray

  • Submarine groundwater discharge revealed by 228 Ra distribution in the upper Atlantic Ocean

    Willard S. Moore;Jorge Louis Sarmiento;Robert M. Key

  • Evaluation of ocean carbon cycle models with data-based metrics

    K. Matsumoto;Jorge L. Sarmiento;Robert M. Key;Olivier Aumont

  • Changes in ocean heat, carbon content, and ventilation : a review of the first decade of GO-SHIP Global Repeat Hydrography

    Lynne D. Talley;Richard A. Feely;Bernadette M. Sloyan;Rik Wanninkhof

  • A uniform, quality controlled Surface Ocean CO2 Atlas (SOCAT)

    B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;B. Pfeil;A. Olsen;D.C.E. Bakker;S. Hankin

  • A global model for the early diagenesis of organic carbon and organic phosphorus in marine sediments

    T.K. Tromp;P. Van Cappellen;R.M. Key

  • Anthropogenic CO2 Uptake by the Ocean Based on the Global Chlorofluorocarbon Data Set

    Ben I. McNeil;Richard J. Matear;Robert M. Key;John L. Bullister

  • In situ calcium carbonate dissolution in the Pacific Ocean

    R. A. Feely;Chris Sabine;K. Lee;F. J. Millero

  • Anthropogenic CO2 in the oceans estimated using transit time distributions

    D. W. Waugh;T. M. Hall;B. I. McNeil;R. Key

  • How much deep water is formed in the Southern Ocean

    W. S. Broecker;S. L. Peacock;S. Walker;R. Weiss

  • Dissociation constants for carbonic acid determined from field measurements

    Frank J. Millero;Denis Pierrot;Kitack Lee;Kitack Lee;Rik Wanninkhof

Frequent Co-Authors

Christopher L. Sabine
Christopher L. Sabine University of Hawaii at Manoa
Are Olsen
Are Olsen University of Bergen
Fiz F. Pérez
Fiz F. Pérez Spanish National Research Council
Toste Tanhua
Toste Tanhua GEOMAR Helmholtz Centre for Ocean Research Kiel
Jorge L. Sarmiento
Jorge L. Sarmiento Princeton University
Richard A. Feely
Richard A. Feely University of Washington
Mario Hoppema
Mario Hoppema Alfred Wegener Institute for Polar and Marine Research
Nicolas Gruber
Nicolas Gruber ETH Zurich
Masayoshi Ishii
Masayoshi Ishii Japan Meteorological Agency
Bronte Tilbrook
Bronte Tilbrook CSIRO Marine and Atmospheric Research

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