Articles | Volume 13, issue 12
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5915-2021
https://doi.org/10.5194/essd-13-5915-2021
Data description paper
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22 Dec 2021
Data description paper |  | 22 Dec 2021

Climatological distribution of dissolved inorganic nutrients in the western Mediterranean Sea (1981–2017)

Malek Belgacem, Katrin Schroeder, Alexander Barth, Charles Troupin, Bruno Pavoni, Patrick Raimbault, Nicole Garcia, Mireno Borghini, and Jacopo Chiggiato

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A climatological product of inorganic nutrient distributions on the Western Mediterranean Sea (BGC-WMED) derived from cruise-based measurements spanning 1981 to 2017 Malek Belgacem, Katrin Schroeder, Alexander Barth, Charles Troupin, Bruno Pavoni, and Jacopo Chiggiato https://doi.org/10.1594/PANGAEA.930447

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The Mediterranean Sea exhibits an anti-estuarine circulation, responsible for its low productivity. Understanding this peculiar character is still a challenge since there is no exact quantification of nutrient sinks and sources. Because nutrient in situ observations are generally infrequent and scattered in space and time, climatological mapping is often applied to sparse data in order to understand the biogeochemical state of the ocean. The dataset presented here partly addresses these issues.
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