Multifractal analysis of phytoplankton biomass and temperature in the ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 23, Issue 24, 1996, Pages 3591-3594

  Seuront, Laurent ^a   Schmitt, François ^b,c   Lagadeuc, Yvan ^a,c   Schertzer, Daniel ^b,c   Lovejoy, Shaun ^b,c   Frontier, Serge ^a  

^a UNIV LILLE   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; FRACTALS; ESTIMATION; OCEAN CURRENTS; TEMPERATURE DISTRIBUTION; TURBULENCE;

LOW AND HIGH FREQUENCIES; MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS; MULTIFRACTAL PARAMETERS; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; SCALING PROCESS; SCALING REGIMES; TURBULENT ENVIRONMENTS; TURBULENT PROCESS;

PHYTOPLANKTON; OCEAN HABITATS;

MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS;

BIOMASS; MULTIFRACTAL ANALYSIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 0030426353     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/96GL03473     Document Type: Article

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