Seasonal and spatial variations in settling manganese fluxes in the Northern Arabian Sea

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 46, Issue 10, 1999, Pages 1827-1839

  Balakrishnan Nair, T M ^a   Ramaswamy, V ^a   Shankar, R ^b   Ittekkot, V ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b MANGALORE UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Arabian Sea; Manganese flux; Monsoon; Scavenging; Sediment trap

Indexed keywords

MANGANESE; SEA;

DENITRIFICATION; MANGANESE; SEASONALITY; SPATIAL VARIATION;

ARABIAN SEA;

EID: 0032852050     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(99)00029-1     Document Type: Article

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