On the basis of analysis of satellite and field data collected in Russian Arctic Seas maps of distribution of primary production for different months of the vegetation period were compiled. These maps were used to estimate ...

A complex study of influence of various environmental factors on rates of oxygen (M_O2 ), ammonium (M_NH4), and phosphate (M_PO4) metabolism in Ahnfeltia tobuchiensis has been carried out in situ in the Izmena Bay of the ...

Sedimentary particle fluxes in the Kara Sea and in the Ob and Yenisey estuaries were first estimated and particulate matter composition was studied in September 1993 during Cruise 49 of R/V Dmitry Mendeleev. Twenty three ...

In February and in the first half of March surface chlorophyll a concentration (C_s) varied from 0.65-0.90 mg/m**3 in the southeastern Black Sea to 1.59-2.67 mg/m**3 in regions of the western and eastern cyclonic gyres, ...

Amounts of aerosols transported to the shelf surface were calculated on the basis of in situ measurements of concentrations of eolian matter (insoluble aerosol fraction) and vertical fluxes of settling dust in five areas ...