Validation of a portable flow injection-chemiluminescence (FI-CL) method for the determination of dissolved iron in Atlantic open ocean and shelf waters by comparison with isotope dilution-inductively coupled plasma mass spectrometry (ID-ICPMS)

Environmental Chemistry

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 139-145

  Ussher, Simon J ^a,c   Petrov, Ivan ^b   Quétel, Christophe R ^b   Worsfold, Paul J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

Atlantic seawater; biogeochemistry; intercomparison exercise

Indexed keywords

EID: 79251537406     PISSN: 14482517     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1071/EN09092     Document Type: Article

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