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NUTRIENT‐DENSITY RELATIONSHIPS IN THE WESTERN NORTH ATLANTIC BETWEEN CAPE LOOKOUT AND BERMUDA 1
Author(s) -
Stánsson Unnsteinn,
Atkinson Larry P.
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.1971.16.1.0051
Subject(s) - nutrient , gulf stream , oceanography , cape , sargasso sea , range (aeronautics) , environmental science , streams , geology , ecology , geography , biology , computer network , materials science , archaeology , computer science , composite material
A study of the nutrient‐density relationships of Sargasso Sea water reveals a close correlation; Gulf Stream waters are anomalously higher and more variable in nutrients for a given density. Nutrient anomalies can be used in the same way as oxygen anomalies to map the distribution of Caribbean water in sections across the Gulf Stream. They show that contributions of Caribbean water to the Gulf Stream vary greatly from time to time. Oxidative ratios of ΔO : ΔN : ΔP = (−233) : 16.3 : 1.0 were derived from the correlation between oxygen anomalies and nutrients anomalies of Gulf Stream water in the sigma‐ t range 25.0–26.8.