Estimation of biogeochemical rates from concentration profiles: A novel inverse method

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 100, Issue , 2012, Pages 26-37

  Lettmann, Karsten Alexander ^a   Riedinger, Natascha ^b   Ramlau, Ronny ^c   Knab, Nina ^d   Böttcher, Michael Ernst ^e   Khalili, Arzhang ^f,h   Wolff, Jörg Olaf ^a   Jørgensen, Bo Barker ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OLDENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c JOHANNES KEPLER UNIVERSITY LINZ   (Austria)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e LEIBNIZ INSTITUTE FOR BALTIC SEA RESEARCH   (Germany)

^f MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^g AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

^h JACOBS UNIVERSITY BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Biogeochemical consumption and production rates; Marine and limnic sediments; Modeling of aquatic systems; Profiles; Tikhonov regularization

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; INVERSE ANALYSIS; MARINE SEDIMENT; METHANE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; SEDIMENT CHEMISTRY; SOLUTE; STEADY-STATE EQUILIBRIUM; SULFATE; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

EID: 79952479212     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2011.01.012     Document Type: Article

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