Formation of nutrient rich bottom water in the eastern parth of the Barents Sea
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During yearly routine observations of hydrography, nutrients and plankton in
the Barents Sea we have observed a distinct anomaly in the distribution of the
nutrients silicate and nitrate in near bottom water in an area off the west-southwest
coast of Novaya Zemlya and in the eastern Barents Sea as a whole.