NUTRIENT AND ORGANIC CARBON EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE BLACK AND MARMARA SEAS THROUGH THE BOSPORUS STRAIT

2005-08-01
Polat, Çolpan
Tuğrul, Süleyman
ecent systematic chemical data, together with a new estimate of the water fluxes, permit the calculation of the total phosphorus (TP), nitrogen (TN) and organic carbon (TOC) exchanged between the Black and the Marmara Seas through the Bosphorus. Assuming the chemical concentrations of the exchanging waters to be constant on a yearly time scale, the estimated total annual fluxes are as follows.
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Citation Formats
Ç. Polat and S. Tuğrul, “NUTRIENT AND ORGANIC CARBON EXCHANGES BETWEEN THE BLACK AND MARMARA SEAS THROUGH THE BOSPORUS STRAIT,” CONTINENTAL SHELF RESEARCH, pp. 1115–11322, 2005, Accessed: 00, 2021. [Online]. Available: https://hdl.handle.net/11511/80339.