FRUELA
Subtitle: a carbon flux study in the Antarctic Peninsula area
By: guest editors, Richardo Anadón, Marta Estrada.
Contributors: Anadón, Ricardo.; Estrada, Marta.
Series: Deep-sea research. Part II, Topical studies in oceanography -- v. 49, nos. 4-5, 2002.; Deep-sea research -- v. 49, no. 4-5.
Publisher: Pergamon; Elsevier Science
Published: 2002
Place of publication: [Oxford, UK]; Oxford; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 950
Subjects: Carbon cycle (Biogeochemistry) -- Antarctic Ocean.; Marine sediments -- Antarctic Ocean.; Chemical oceanography -- Antarctic Ocean.
Other titles: Carbon flux study in the Antarctic Peninsula area.
Notes: "The FRUELA (name of an 8th century king of Asturias) project, part of the Spanish contribution to the study of biogeochemical carbon fluxes in the Southern Ocean, was based on two consecutive cruises of the B.I.O.; Hespérides which took place in the Bransfield and Gerlache Straits and Belligshausen Sea between early December and early February of Austral summer 1995-1996. In addition to the cruises, data were obtained from an array of sediment traps deployed for one year in the Western Bransfield Strait Basin. The basic objectives of FRUELA were the quantification of carbon standing stocks and fluxes through the main components of the 'biological pump' and the determination of carbon fluxes across different water column boundaries, including the transfer of CO2 between the atmosphere and the ocean, the export of particulate carbon (PC) out of the euphotic zone, the vertical flux of PC in deep waters and the accumulation of carbon in sediments."--P. [567].

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