Estimation of atmospheric nutrient inputs to the Atlantic ocean from 50°N to 50°S based on large-scale field sampling: Fixed nitrogen and dry deposition of phosphorus

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 24, Issue 7, 2010, Pages

  Baker, A R ^a   Lesworth, T ^a   Adams, C ^a   Jickells, T D ^a   Ganzeveld, L ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b WAGENINGEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC EMISSIONS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATMOSPHERIC NITROGEN; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; CLIMATOLOGICAL ESTIMATES; DEPOSITION VELOCITIES; DRY AND WET DEPOSITIONS; DRY DEPOSITION; FIELD SAMPLING; FIXED NITROGEN; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; LOWER LIMITS; NORTHERN HEMISPHERES; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; ORGANIC NITROGEN; SOURCES OF UNCERTAINTY; WET DEPOSITION; WET REGION;

AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; ATMOSPHERIC MOVEMENTS; CLIMATOLOGY; ESTIMATION; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; NITROGEN; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHOSPHORUS; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DEPOSITION;

AEROSOL COMPOSITION; AIR SAMPLING; AMMONIUM; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC PLUME; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FIELD SURVEY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; HUMAN ACTIVITY; NITRATE; NITROGEN CYCLE; NORTHERN HEMISPHERE; PHOSPHORUS CYCLE; RAINWATER; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 79959748335     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GB003634     Document Type: Article

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