Scottish Marine and Freshwater Science Volume 4 Number 1: Annual Cycles of Physical, Chemical and Biological Parameters in Scottish Waters

Abstract

Tables describing the annual cycles of physical (temperature, salinity, density and water column stability), chemical (nitrate, orthophosphate, silicate, ammonia and oxygen saturation) and biological (particulate organic carbon, particulate organic nitrogen, chlorophyll- a and phaeophytin) parameters are presented for twenty six sub-areas of Scottish coastal and oceanic waters. These tables have been derived from observations made by the Marine Laboratory, Aberdeen, during the period 1960-2010.