Nutrient dynamics in a back barrier tidal basin of the Southern North Sea: Time-series, model simulations, and budget estimates

Journal of Sea Research

Volumn 64, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 199-212

  Grunwald, Maik ^a,b   Dellwig, Olaf ^c   Kohlmeier, Cora ^a   Kowalski, Nicole ^c   Beck, Melanie ^a   Badewien, Thomas H ^a   Kotzur, Stephan ^a   Liebezeit, Gerd ^a   Brumsack, Hans Jürgen ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

Budgets; German Bight; Modelling; Nitrite Plus Nitrate; NOx; North Sea; Nutrients; Phosphate; Silica; Wadden Sea

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; NITRATE; NITRITE; NUTRIENT BUDGET; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOSPHATE; POREWATER; SILICA; TIDAL FLAT; TIME SERIES;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; EAST FRISIAN ISLANDS; FRISIAN ISLANDS; GERMANY; LOWER SAXONY; NORTH SEA; SPIEKEROOG;

EID: 77954956981     PISSN: 13851101     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.seares.2010.02.008     Document Type: Article

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