Seasonal and annual change in seawater temperature, salinity, nutrient and chlorophyll a distributions around South Georgia, South Atlantic

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 43, Issue 4, 1996, Pages 425-443

  Whitehouse, M J ^a   Priddle, J ^a   Symon, C ^a,b  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^b Oslo and Paris Commissions   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLLS; NUTRIENTS; OCEANOGRAPHIC SURVEYS; SALINITY; TEMPERATURE; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY;

ANTARCTICA, SOUTH GEORGIA;

EID: 0030117079     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0967-0637(96)00020-9     Document Type: Article

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