New production and photosynthetic rates within and outside a cyclonic mesoscale eddy in the North Pacific subtropical gyre

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 43, Issue 6, 1996, Pages 917-936

  Allen, Colleen B ^a   Kandat, Jota ^b   Laws, Edward A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b SHIZUOKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MESOSCALE EDDIES; MESOSCALE EDDY; NITRATE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SUBTROPICAL GYRE;

PACIFIC, (NORTH);

EID: 0030485309     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0967-0637(96)00022-2     Document Type: Article

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