Seasonal ITCZ migration dynamically controls the location of the (sub)tropical Atlantic biogeochemical divide

Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America

Volumn 111, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 1438-1442

  Schlosser, Christian ^a   Klar, Jessica K ^a   Wake, Bronwyn D ^a   Snow, Joseph T ^a   Honey, David J ^a   Woodward, E Malcolm S ^b   Lohan, Maeve C ^c   Achterberg, Eric P ^a,d   Mark Moore, C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

^b PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d GEOMAR HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR OCEAN RESEARCH KIEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALUMINUM; IRON; PHOSPHATE; WATER;

ACETOBACTER; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; GEOGRAPHIC DISTRIBUTION; INTERTROPICAL CONVERGENCE ZONE; LATITUDE; NITROGEN FIXATION; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TRICHODESMIUM; WET DEPOSITION;

ATMOSPHERIC IRON DEPOSITION; NITROGEN FIXATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; CYANOBACTERIA; NITROGEN FIXATION; SEASONS;

EID: 84893368327     PISSN: 00278424     EISSN: 10916490     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1073/pnas.1318670111     Document Type: Article

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