Geochemical estimates of denitrification in the Arabian Sea and the Bay of Bengal during WOCE

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 21, 1997, Pages 2549-2552

  Howell, Evan A ^a,c   Doney, Scott C ^b   Fine, Rana A ^a   Olson, Donald B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; NITRATES; OCEANOGRAPHY; OXYGEN; CHLOROFLUOROCARBONS; DENITRIFICATION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; SEAWATER; WIND EFFECTS;

BAY OF BENGAL; DENITRIFICATION RATE; MIXING MODELS; NORTHEAST MONSOON; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; SOUTHWEST MONSOON; WATER COLUMNS; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT;

DENITRIFICATION; OCEANOGRAPHY;

WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT (WOCE);

DENITRIFICATION; GEOCHEMISTRY; OXYGEN MINIMUM LAYER; SEAWATER; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT;

ARABIAN SEA; BAY OF BENGAL;

EID: 0031277561     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL01538     Document Type: Article

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