Description: Number of in situ measurements obtained from instruments carried aboard oceanographic research and merchant ships. This is of annual data distribution. The spatial and temporal coverage of phosphate data in the Gulf of Mexico is not uniform: most of the historical data were collected over the continental shelf near shallow intertidal areas (<200 m depth).
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Description: Phosphate at 10 m depths for winter, spring, summer, and fall show relatively large horizontal gradients due to the effects of surface biological uptake, physical forcing (e.g., vertical stratification, upwelling of nutrient-rich water, and circulation), river nutrient inputs, and decomposition of labile organic matter.
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Description: Climatological mean fields of phosphate for the fall season (October - December) at 10m water depth on a one degree grid. Measurements are in umol/l.
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Description: Climatological mean fields of phosphate for the winter season (January - March) at 10m water depth on a one degree grid. Measurements are in umol/l.
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Description: Climatological mean fields of phosphate for the spring season (April - June) at 10m water depth on a one degree grid. Measurements are in umol/l.
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Description: Climatological mean fields of phosphate for the summer season (July - September) at 10m water depth on a one degree grid. Measurements are in umol/l.
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Description: Deeper in the water column, phosphate at 250 m for winter, spring, summer, and fall shows marked west-to-east zonal gradients, which reflect advection of waters of different preformed concentrations entering the Gulf of Mexico between the Yucatan Peninsula, Cuba, and Florida.
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Description: Climatological mean fields of phosphate for the fall season (October - December) at 250m water depth on a one degree grid. Measurements are in umol/l.
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Description: Climatological mean fields of phosphate for the winter season (January - March) at 250m water depth on a one degree grid. Measurements are in umol/l.
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Description: Climatological mean fields of phosphate for the spring season (April - June) at 250m water depth on a one degree grid. Measurements are in umol/l.
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Description: Climatological mean fields of phosphate for the summer season (July - September) at 250m water depth on a one degree grid. Measurements are in umol/l.
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