Abstract
A strong secondary nitrite maximum was observed at 15°S off the coast of Peru in August 1976. Since the secondary nitrite maximum does not coincide with a maximum in stability where sinking particulate organic material would accumulate, the hypothesis that the depth of nitrite accumulation is determined by the concentration of organic substrates on a density discontinuity is not tenable. Instead, the nitrite maximum coincides with a stability minimum within the core of the southward‐moving Equatorial Subsurface Water in the Peru‐Chile Undercurrent.
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