Iron fertilization of Trichodesmium off the west coast of Barbados: A one-dimensional numerical model

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 52, Issue 6, 2005, Pages 1021-1041

  Lenes, Jason M ^a   Walsh, John J ^a   Otis, Daniel B ^a   Carder, Kendall L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

Barbados; Biogeochemical cycles; Caribbean; Iron; Modeling; Saharan dust; Trichodesmium; Western North Atlantic

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DUST; IRON; PHOSPHORUS; SALINITY MEASUREMENT; SURFACE WATERS;

EPISODIC PULSES; IRON FERTILIZATION; TROPICAL RIVERS; WATER COLUMNS;

COASTAL ZONES;

IRON; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

ATLANTIC ISLANDS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BARBADOS; CARIBBEAN ISLANDS; LESSER ANTILLES; OCEANIC REGIONS; WORLD;

CYANOBACTERIA; TRICHODESMIUM;

EID: 19044389604     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2004.11.010     Document Type: Article

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