Determination of particulate organic carbon (POC) in seawater: The relative methodological importance of artificial gains and losses in two glass-fiber-filter-based techniques

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 105, Issue 3-4, 2007, Pages 208-228

  Turnewitsch, Robert ^a,b,c   Springer, Barbara M ^d   Kiriakoulakis, Konstadinos ^e   Vilas, Juan Carlos ^f   Arístegui, Javier ^f   Wolff, George ^e   Peine, Florian ^d   Werk, Stephan ^d   Graf, Gerhard ^d   Waniek, Joanna J ^b  

^a SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ROSTOCK   (Germany)

^e UNIVERSITY OF LIVERPOOL   (United Kingdom)

^f UNIVERSITY OF LAS PALMAS DE GRAN CANARIA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Adsorption; Baltic Sea; Bottles; Dissolved organic matter; Filtration; Northeast Atlantic; Particulate organic carbon; Pumps

Indexed keywords

ADSORPTION; CARBON CYCLE; DEEP SEA; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE ORGANIC NITROGEN; SEAWATER;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); BALTIC SEA;

EID: 34249941266     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2007.01.017     Document Type: Article

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