Premium
ON THE APPARENT OXYGEN UTILIZATION AND THE PREFORMED PHOSPHATE IN THE OCEANS 1
Author(s) -
Pytkowicx Ricardo M.
Publication year - 1971
Publication title -
limnology and oceanography
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 1.7
H-Index - 197
eISSN - 1939-5590
pISSN - 0024-3590
DOI - 10.4319/lo.1971.16.1.0039
Subject(s) - phosphate , oxygen , mixing (physics) , apparent oxygen utilisation , chemistry , environmental chemistry , inorganic chemistry , mineralogy , environmental science , biochemistry , organic chemistry , physics , quantum mechanics
This work shows that the apparent oxygen utilization (AOU) expresses the oxygen utilized between the surface and some point within the oceans, even though the dissolved oxygen content at that point results not only from utilization by oxidation but also from the mixing of waters. This result is applied to an interpretation of the concept of preformed phosphate.