High oxygen consumption rates in the deep layers of the North Aegean Sea (eastern Mediterranean)

Mediterranean Marine Science

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 55-64

  Souvermezoglou, E ^a   Krasakopoulou, E ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Carbon remineralisation; Deep waters; Eastern mediterranean; North aegean sea; Oxygen consumption; Stagnation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0242278788     PISSN: 1108393X     EISSN: 17916763     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.12681/mms.258     Document Type: Article

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