Controls on the distributions of organic carbon and nitrogen in the eastern Pacific Ocean

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 44, Issue 5, 1997, Pages 843-857

  Hansell, Dennis A ^a   Waterhouse, Tye Y ^a  

^a GE 01   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; ORGANIC CARBON; ORGANIC NITROGEN;

PACIFIC, (EAST);

EID: 0030838958     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(96)00128-8     Document Type: Article

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