Biological productivity of meso-scale eddies caused by frontal disturbances in the Kuroshio

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 54, Issue 2, 1997, Pages 179-192

  Kimura, Shingo ^a   Kasai, Akihide ^b   Nakata, Hideaki ^a   Sugimoto, Takashige ^a   Simpson, John H ^c   Cheok, Joseph V S ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^b KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

eddy; frontal disturbance; Kuroshio; physical biological model; primary production

Indexed keywords

FRONTAL DISTURBANCE; FRONTAL FEATURES; MESOSCALE EDDIES; MESOSCALE EDDY; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; WESTERN BOUNDARY CURRENTS;

PACIFIC, KUROSHIO CURRENT;

EID: 0030846453     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1006/jmsc.1996.0209     Document Type: Article

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