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Particulate matter and organic compounds (chlorophyll, lipids, and hydrocarbons) were analyzed in surface waters along the routes of R/Vs Akademik Fedorov (cruise 32) and Akademik Treshnikov (cruise 2) in February–May of 2012 and 2014, respectively, in the course of the 57th and 59th Russian Antarctic expeditions. It was found that the frontal zones exert the primary influence on the concentrations of the mentioned components in the Southern Ocean and in the western part of the Atlantic Ocean. The supply of pollutants into the Eastern Atlantic Ocean on the shelf of the Iberian peninsula results in a pronounced increase in the concentrations of lipids and hydrocarbons causing local anthropogenic pollution zones.
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Original Russian Text © I.A. Nemirovskaya, A.P. Lisitzin, M.D. Kravchishina, Z.Yu. Redzhepova, 2015, published in Doklady Akademii Nauk, 2015, Vol. 464, No. 4, pp. 468–473.
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Nemirovskaya, I.A., Lisitzin, A.P., Kravchishina, M.D. et al. Influence of frontal zones on the distribution of particulate matter and organic compounds in surface waters of the Atlantic and Southern Oceans. Dokl. Earth Sc. 464, 1033–1038 (2015). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1028334X15100074
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