Composition of dissolved organic matter along an Atlantic Meridional Transect from fluorescence spectroscopy and Parallel Factor Analysis

Marine Chemistry

Volumn 157, Issue , 2013, Pages 170-184

  Kowalczuk, Piotr ^a   Tilstone, Gavin H ^b   Zabłocka, Monika ^a   Röttgers, Rüdiger ^c   Thomas, Rob ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

^d NATURAL ENVIRONMENT RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Absorption; Amino acids; Chromophoric dissolved organic matter; Excitation Emission Matrix spectra; Fluorescence; Humic substances; PARAFAC model; Spectral indices

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; AMINO ACID; AUTOCHTHON; BIODEGRADATION; CHEMICAL COMPOSITION; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; FLUORESCENCE SPECTROSCOPY; FRACTIONATION; HUMIC SUBSTANCE; HUMIFICATION; LINEARITY; MATRIX; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MINERALIZATION; MIXED LAYER; OXYGEN; PHOTODEGRADATION; PROTEIN; SALINITY; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENGLISH CHANNEL; PATAGONIAN SHELF;

EID: 84886863258     PISSN: 03044203     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marchem.2013.10.004     Document Type: Article

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