Nitrate Isotope Variability in the Western Equatorial Pacific: Tracing Ocean Circulation and Nitrogen Transformation Processes

Markus Kienast1, Nadine Lehmann1, Julie Granger2, Kevin Sidney Jorden Brown3, Patrick A Rafter4, Gema Martinez-Mendez5 and Mahyar Mohtadi6, (1)Dalhousie University, Department of Oceanography, Halifax, NS, Canada, (2)University of Connecticut, Marine Sciences, Groton, United States, (3)University of Connecticut, Department of Biomedical Engineering, Groton, CT, United States, (4)University of California Irvine, Earth System Science, Irvine, CA, United States, (5)MARUM, Bremen, Germany, (6)MARUM - University of Bremen, Bremen, Germany