Nutrient fluxes and budgets for the North West European Shelf from a three-dimensional model

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 314-316, Issue , 2003, Pages 769-785

  Proctor, Roger ^a   Holt, Jason T ^a   Allen, J Icarus ^b   Blackford, Jerry ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Budget; Ecosystem; Flux; Model; Nutrients; NW European Shelf; Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Coastal Ocean Modelling System (POLCOMS)

Indexed keywords

BUDGET CONTROL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS;

NUTRIENT FLUXES;

ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT;

NITROGEN; PHOSPHORUS; SILICON;

CONTINENTAL SHELF; FLUX MEASUREMENT; NUTRIENT BUDGET; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ADVECTION; BENTHOS; COASTAL WATERS; CONFERENCE PAPER; CONTINENTAL SHELF; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL RECLAMATION; EUROPE; HYDRODYNAMICS; INORGANIC NUTRIENT; OCEANOGRAPHY; PELAGIC ZONE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROCESS MODEL; PRODUCTIVITY; RIVER; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EUROPEAN SHELF;

EID: 0141560608     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0048-9697(03)00083-4     Document Type: Conference Paper

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