A novel time-series station in the Wadden Sea (NW Germany): First results on continuous nutrient and methane measurements

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 107, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 411-421

  Grunwald, Maik ^a   Dellwig, Olaf ^a,b   Liebezeit, Gerd ^c   Schnetger, Bernhard ^a   Reuter, Rainer ^a   Brumsack, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Forschungszentrum Terramare   (Germany)

Author keywords

Methane; North Sea; Nutrients; Tidal flats; Time series station; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WATER; CONDUCTIVITY; HYDROGRAPH; MEASUREMENT METHOD; METHANE; NUTRIENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRESSURE; SENSOR; TEMPERATURE; TIDAL FLAT; TIDAL INLET; TIME SERIES; WATER COLUMN;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CENTRAL EUROPE; EAST FRISIAN ISLANDS; EURASIA; EUROPE; FRISIAN ISLANDS; GERMANY; LANGEOOG; LOWER SAXONY; NORTH SEA; SPIEKEROOG; WADDEN SEA;

EID: 36048978629     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2007.04.003     Document Type: Article

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