Cetacean distributions and oceanographic features near the Kerguelen Plateau

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 24, Issue 22, 1997, Pages 2793-2796

  Tynan, Cynthia T ^a,b  

^a NOAA National Marine Mammal Laboratory   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; CASCADES (FLUID MECHANICS); HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEA ICE; OCEAN CURRENTS;

CETACEAN DISTRIBUTION; ISOPYCNAL SHOALING;

OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CETACEAN; NUTRIENTS; POPULATION DENSITY; WATER MASSES;

INDIAN OCEAN, (SOUTH);

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; HIGHER LATITUDES; KERGUELEN PLATEAU; SOUTHERN WATERS; SURFACE MIXED LAYERS; TROPHIC DYNAMICS; UPPER CIRCUMPOLAR DEEP WATER; WORLD OCEAN CIRCULATION EXPERIMENT;

CETACEA;

EID: 0031278205     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/97GL02860     Document Type: Article

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