Seasonal changes in the distribution of dissolved organic nitrogen in coastal and open-ocean waters in the North East Pacific: Sources and sinks

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 49, Issue 24-25, 2002, Pages 5759-5773

  Wong, C S ^a   Yu, Z ^b   Waser, N A D ^c   Whitney, F A ^a   Johnson, W K ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ESTUARIES; NITRATES; NITROGEN; SURFACE WATERS; WATER CONSERVATION;

SEASONAL CHANGES;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

COASTAL WATER; DISSOLVED ORGANIC NITROGEN; OPEN OCEAN; SEASONAL VARIATION; SOURCE-SINK DYNAMICS;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0036033653     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(02)00213-8     Document Type: Article

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