Nutrient utilization ratios in the Polar Frontal Zone in the Australian sector of the Southern Ocean: A model

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 17, Issue 1, 2003, Pages

  Wang, Xiujun ^a,b   Matear, Richard J ^c   Trull, Thomas W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^c Div of Marine Res Commonwealth Sc   (Australia)

Author keywords

Export production; Nutrients; Redfield ratio; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT CYCLING; ORGANIC MATTER; ORGANIC NITROGEN; ORGANIC PHOSPHORUS; SEASONAL VARIATION;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0037998616     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GB001938     Document Type: Article

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