Internal tide dissipation, mixing, and vertical nitrate flux at the shelf edge of NE New Zealand

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C7, 2001, Pages 14069-14081

  Sharples, Jonathan ^a   Moore, C Mark ^a   Abraham, Edward R ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

INTERNAL TIDE; NITRATE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; SHELF BREAK; VERTICAL MIXING;

NEW ZEALAND SHELF; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0034868172     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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