Critical depth and critical turbulence: Two different mechanisms for the development of phytoplankton blooms

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 44, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1781-1787

  Huisman, Jef ^a,c   Van Oostveen, Paul ^b,d   Weissing, Franz J ^b  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^d Ministry of Foreign Affairs Netherlands   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; DEPTH; MODEL; PHYTOPLANKTON; TURBULENCE;

ALGAE;

EID: 0032694808     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.1999.44.7.1781     Document Type: Article

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