Sampling the vertical particle flux in the upper water column using a large diameter free-drifting NetTrap adapted to an Indented Rotating Sphere sediment trap

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 56, Issue 18, 2009, Pages 1547-1557

  Peterson, Michael L ^a   Fabres, Joan ^b   Wakeham, Stuart G ^c   Lee, Cindy ^b   Alonso, Iván J ^b   Miquel, Juan Carlos ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c SKIDAWAY INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (United States)

^d INTERNATIONAL ATOMIC ENERGY AGENCY   (Monaco)

Author keywords

Sediment traps; Settling velocity; Swimmer exclusion

Indexed keywords

DISCRETE SETTLING; FIELD DEPLOYMENT; FURTHER DEVELOPMENT; LARGE DIAMETER; LARGE SIZES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXPERIMENTS; PARTICLE FLUXES; PARTICLE RELEASE; ROTATING SPHERES; SETTLING BEHAVIOR; SETTLING VELOCITY; SWIMMER EXCLUSION; TRANSFERRING PARTICLE; UPPER WATER COLUMN;

ROTATION; SEDIMENT TRAPS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

VELOCITY;

CHEMICAL ANALYSIS; FLUX MEASUREMENT; PARTICLE MOTION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT TRAP; SETTLING VELOCITY; WATER COLUMN;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 67649908925     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2008.12.020     Document Type: Article

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