A novel integration of an ultraviolet nitrate sensor on board a towed vehicle for mapping open-ocean submesoscale nitrate variability

Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology

Volumn 27, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 1410-1416

  Pidcock, Rosalind ^a   Srokosz, Meric ^a   Allen, John ^a   Hartman, Mark ^a   Painter, Stuart ^a   Mowlem, Matt ^a   Hydes, David ^a   Martin, Adrian ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMBINED SYSTEM; EUPHOTIC ZONE; HIGH SENSITIVITY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; HIGH-RESOLUTION SURVEY; ICELAND BASIN; MESOSCALE; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; NITRATE SENSORS; NUTRIENT FLUXES; OCEAN SUBMESOSCALE; TOWED VEHICLE;

DISSOLVED OXYGEN;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EUPHOTIC ZONE; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NITRATE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PHOTOMETER; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; SUMMER; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ICELAND BASIN;

EID: 77957741268     PISSN: 07390572     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1175/2010JTECHO780.1     Document Type: Article

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