Overhead shows N* for the Pacific WOCE sections (Robbins).
Low N* in 2 regions: eastern tropical Pacific (nearly anoxic water column -> denitrification) and NW Pacific (apparently denitrification in the sediments)
NW Pacific has just P14N and P01W in the Bering and Okhotsk Seas. Additional Okhotsk Sea survey, already shown, highlights denitrification effects in Okhotsk Sea in comparison with Bering, which is weaker, but which is often referred to because of Geosec
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