Remote-Sensing-Based Estimation of Surface Nitrate and Its Variability in the Southern Peninsular Indian Waters

<table class="table-group" id="tab1"><tr><td><table class="table"><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr class="thead"><td align="left">Study Area</td><td align="left">High nitrate/months</td></tr><tr><td class="thead-hr" colspan="2"><hr/></td></tr><tr><td align="left">Arabian Sea</td><td align="left">June–September</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Indian Ocean</td><td align="left">June–September and December–February</td></tr><tr><td align="left">Bay of Bengal</td><td align="left">December–February</td></tr><tr class="table-tr"><td colspan="2"><hr class="tbody-hr"/></td></tr></table></td></tr><tr class="table-fn"><td>
                *April-May showed fully NO<sub>3</sub>-depleted zones throughout the study area.<br/></td></tr></table>

Depiction of high nitrate distribution months in the Indian water.

International Journal of Oceanography

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Table 1: Remote-Sensing-Based Estimation of Surface Nitrate and Its Variability in the Southern Peninsular Indian Waters 