Thursday, 11 April 2013

Pioneering study calculates Arctic Ocean nutrient budget

Southampton UK (SPX) Apr 12, 2013



The first study of its kind to calculate the amount of nutrients entering and leaving the Arctic Ocean has been carried out by scientists based at the National Oceanography Centre, Southampton.

Their results, which are published this month in the Journal of Geophysical Research, show that there is a mismatch between what goes into the Arctic Ocean and what comes out.

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