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TI The distribution of nutrients in the Equatorial Atlantic: Relation to physical processes and phytoplankton biomass
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AF OUDOT, C
   MORIN, P
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UR https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00267/37856/35937.pdf
LA English
DT Article
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   CIPREA V CAP 8001
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BO Andre Nizery
   Capricorne
   Ombango
AB In the Gulf of Guinea (4 degree W), the equatorial upwelling, generated by the divergence of surface current meridional components, appears only during the boreal (northern) summer (June to September) south of the Equator and exhibits a considerable enrichment in nitrate and phosphate at the sea surface. At the Equator below the surface, there is also a seasonal nutrient enrichment due to vertical mixing or/and vertical motion of the thermocline. Zonal advection from the African coastal zone, often advanced to explain the equatorial fertility, does not completely agree with the observed surface distributions of nitrate. In the western equatorial Atlantic (35 degree W), the seasonal surface nutrient enrichment does not appear in July and the surface layer seems to remain impoverished in nutrient throughout the year.
PY 1987
SO Oceanologica Acta, Special issue
SN 0399-1784
PU Gauthier-Villars
ID 37856
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