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| Bethoux, J P; Prieur, L; Bong, J H. |
| Off Nice, over a whole year, the Ligurian Current transports about 1.8 multiplied by 10 super(6) m super(3)/s of sea water between the coast and approximately 33 km offshore. A marked annual cycle, which appears off Nice and also through the Corsican channel (with maximum transport occurring in December and January and minimum in August and September), has been correlated with freshwater inputs from precipitation and river discharges, essentially the input from the River Arno. The upper layer of the Ligurian Current (0-250 m) has two components: a variable one forced by coastal freshwater, mainly originating in the Tyrrhenian Sea; and a more constant one, originating essentially in the Algero-Provencal basin. These findings strengthen the hypothesis of... |
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| Ano: 1988 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00267/37816/35897.pdf |
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| Bethoux, J P; Copin-montegut, G. |
| The Mediterranean Sea constitutes a small-scale model of a real ocean for studying the fate of trace elements. Peculiarities in the phosphorus and nitrogen cycles permit a better knowledge of the Mediterranean ecosystem and a forecast of their temporal evolutions. The apparent deficit of the Mediterranean nitrogen budget and the abnormally high N/P ratio (compared with the value for the Atlantic) can be explained by a high biological fixation of atmospheric nitrogen, probably due to certain kinds of plankton and bacteria and the presence of Posidonia oceanica and its epiphytes. |
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| Ano: 1988 |
URL: http://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00267/37789/35870.pdf |
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