Dissolved Inorganic Nutrients on GLOBEC Cruises NBP0103 and NBP0104

“Standard” Nutrient Methods (WOCE, mostly)

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Phosphate, nitrate, and silica : upper ocean increases between cruises suggesting remineralization

But ammonia shows a different behavior between cruises.

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Because nitrification converts ammonia to nitrate, a graph of nitrate vs ammonia was prepared for Cruise 103

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Summary