The onset of the Spring Bloom in the MEDOC area: Mesoscale spatial variability

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 46, Issue 7, 1999, Pages 1137-1160

  Lévy, Marina ^a   Mémery, Laurent ^a   Madec, Gurvan ^a  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EDDY; MODEL; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPATIAL VARIATION;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0033168898     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(98)00105-8     Document Type: Article

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