Subsurface tropical Pacific nitrogen isotopic composition of nitrate: Biogeochemical signals and their transport

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Rafter, Patrick A ^a,b   Sigman, Daniel M ^b   Charles, Christopher D ^a   Kaiser, Jan ^c   Haug, Gerald H ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^d ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; COMBINED CONSTRAINTS; COUNTER CURRENT; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; HIGH LATITUDES; INTERMEDIATE DEPTH WATERS; NITRATE CONCENTRATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPIC; SOURCE WATERS; SUBANTARCTIC MODE WATER; ZONAL TRANSECTS;

ISOTOPES; NITROGEN; TROPICS;

NITROGEN FIXATION;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); COUNTERCURRENT; ISOTOPIC COMPOSITION; NITRATE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NITROGEN ISOTOPE; REMINERALIZATION; THERMOCLINE;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 84855572275     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GB003979     Document Type: Article

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