Oxygen photolysis in the Mauritanian upwelling: Implications for net community production

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 59, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 299-310

  Kitidis, Vassilis ^a   Tilstone, Gavin H ^a   Serret, Pablo ^b   Smyth, Timothy J ^a   Torres, Ricardo ^a   Robinson, Carol ^a,c  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABSORBANCE; DISSOLVED ORGANIC MATTER; EUPHOTIC ZONE; LAGRANGIAN ANALYSIS; NET ECOSYSTEM PRODUCTION; OXYGEN; PHOTOCHEMISTRY; PHOTOLYSIS; REACTION KINETICS; SURFACE WATER; UPWELLING;

MAURITANIA;

EID: 84895895707     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2014.59.2.0299     Document Type: Article

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