A balanced nitrogen budget of the surface layer of the southern Ross Sea, Antarctica

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 27, Issue 17, 2000, Pages 2721-2724

  Smith Jr , Walker O ^a   Asper, Vernon A ^b  

^a VIRGINIA INSTITUTE OF MARINE SCIENCE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN MISSISSIPPI   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTICA; BIOTRANSFORMATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NITROGEN METABOLISM; ORGANIC MATTER; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER;

NITROGEN CYCLE; SEA SURFACE;

ROSS SEA;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; CLIMATOLOGY; NATURAL WATER GEOCHEMISTRY; NITRATES; NITROGEN; PARTICLES (PARTICULATE MATTER);

EUPHOTIC ZONE; NITROGEN BUDGET; PHYTOPLANKTON; SURFACE LAYER;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 0034517893     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/1999GL011034     Document Type: Article

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