The 1882 tilefish kill - A cold event in shelf waters off the north-eastern United States?

Fisheries Oceanography

Volumn 8, Issue 1, 1999, Pages 39-49

  Marsh, Robert ^a   Petrie, Brian ^b   Weidman, Christopher R ^c   Dickson, Robert R ^d   Loder, John W ^b   Hannah, Charles G ^b   Frank, Kenneth ^b   Drinkwater, Ken ^b  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^b BEDFORD INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Canada)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Labrador Current; NAO; Tilefish kill

Indexed keywords

COLD WATER; EXTREME EVENT; MASS MORTALITY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0033066089     PISSN: 10546006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1046/j.1365-2419.1999.00092.x     Document Type: Article

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