Trajectories of sinking particles in the Sargasso Sea: Modeling of statistical funnels above deep-ocean sediment traps

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 44, Issue 9-10, 1997, Pages 1519-1541

  Siegel, D A ^a   Deuser, W G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOW FIELD; MODELING; OCEAN; SEDIMENT; SINK;

DEEP SEA; MODEL; PARTICULATE FLUX; SINKING;

ATLAMTIC, SARGASSO SEA;

EID: 0030779531     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(97)00028-9     Document Type: Article

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