Temporal variability in oxygen and nutrient concentrations in the southern Aegean Sea and the Straits of the Cretan Arc

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 1999, Pages 573-600

  Souvermezoglou, Ekaterini ^a   Krasakopoulou, Evangelia ^a   Pavlidou, Alexandra ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CONCENTRATION; NUTRIENT; OXYGEN; SEASONAL VARIATION; STRAIT;

CRETAN ARC; CRETAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0033494581     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(99)00045-2     Document Type: Review

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