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Technical note: Conditions for using the floating chamber method to estimate air-water gas exchange

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  1. Department of Marine Sciences, University of Connecticut at Avery Point, 06340-6097, Groton, Connecticut

    James N. Kremer

  2. Graduate School of Oceanography, University of Rhode Island, 02882, Narragansett, Rhode Island

    Scott W. Nixon & Betty Buckley

  3. Texas Natural Resources Conservation Commission, Box 13087, 78711-3087, Austin, Texas

    Patrick Roques

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Kremer, J.N., Nixon, S.W., Buckley, B. et al. Technical note: Conditions for using the floating chamber method to estimate air-water gas exchange. Estuaries 26, 985–990 (2003). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02803357

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