Abstract
High variability of suspensates in the surface water of the Ligurian Sea, an area of limited fluvial sources, sampled at a time of low terrestrial influx raises serious questions regarding conclusions about fluxes or budgets drawn from samples taken during a single cruise. The probability that concentrations found during a single cruise represent a long-term average is very small. On four cruises we found that concentrations of suspended material in the surface waters of the Ligurian Sea were highly variable, even at repeated stations. Variability is largely the result of changes in location of divergences and localized upwelling.
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Pierce, J.W., Tucci, S. & Fierro, G. Assessing variations in suspensates, Ligurian Sea (northwestern Mediterranean). Geo-Marine Letters 1, 149–154 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02463333
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