Particle flux in the ocean - Schaffer, Petra; Honjo, Susumu; Depetris, Pedro J. (Chichester John Wiley and Sons, 1996)
1. Particle Flux in the Ocean: introduction / V. Ittekkot -- 2. Remote Sensing of Parameters Relevant to the Particle Flux in the Ocean Using Meteorological Satellites / P. Schlussel -- 3. The Atmospheric Transport of Particles to the Ocean / J. M. Prospero -- 4. Riverine Transfer of Particulate Matter to Ocean Systems / P. J. Depetris -- 5. Particle Flux in the Ocean: Oceanographic Tools / V. L. Asper -- 6. Evaluation of Sediment Traps with Naturally Occurring Radionuclides / M. P. Bacon -- 7. Fluxes of Particles to the Interior of the Open Oceans / S. Honjo -- 8. Nitrogen and Carbon Isotopic Tracers of the Source and Transformation of Particles in the Deep Sea / M. A. Altabet -- 9. Temporal Variability of Particle Flux in the Deep Sargasso Sea / W. G. Deuser -- 10. Seasonal and Interannual Particle Fluxes in the Eastern Equatorial Atlantic from 1989 to 1991: ITCZ Migrations and Upwelling / G. Fischer, G. Wefer -- 11. Preliminary Data on Particle Flux off the Sao Francisco River, Eastern Brazil / T. C. Jennerjahn, V. Ittekkot, C. E. V. Carvalho -- 12. Organic Carbon Fluxes and Sediment Biogeochemistry on the French Mediterranean and Atlantic Margins / H. Etcheber, S. Heussner, O. Weber, A. Dinet, X. Durrieu de Madron, A. Monaco, R. Buscail, J. C. Miquel -- 13. Abiotic and Biotic Forcing on Vertical Particle Flux in the Southern Ocean / U. V. Bachmann -- 14. Processes Determining Seasonality and Interannual Variability of Setting Particle Fluxes to the Deep Arabian Sea / B. Haake, T. Rixen, T. Reemtsma, V. Ramaswamy, V. Ittekkot -- 15. Fresh Water Influx and Particle Flux Variability in the Bay of Bengal / P. Schafer, V. Ittekkot, M. Bartsch, R. R. Nair, J. Tiemann -- 16. Fluxes of Particulate Matter in the South China Sea / M. G. Wiesner, L. Zheng, H. K. Wong, Y. Wang, W. Chen -- 17. Vertical Particle Flux in the Western Pacific Below the North Equatorial Current and the Equatorial Counter Current / S. Kempe, H. Knaack -- 18. Vertical Particle Flux in Lake Baikal / S. Kempe, M. Schaumburg -- 19. Particle Flux in the Ocean: Summary / V. Ittekkot.
Includes references and index.
Keywords: Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry); Chemical oceanography; Ocean-atmosphere interaction