Continuous monitoring of surface optical properties across a geostrophic front: Biogeochemical inferences

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 45, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 309-321

  Claustre, Hervé ^a   Fell, Frank ^a   Oubelkheir, Kadija ^a   Prieur, Louis ^a   Sciandra, Antoine ^a   Gentili, Bernard ^a   Babin, Marcel ^a  

^a LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; MONITORING SYSTEM; OPTICAL PROPERTY;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; MASTIGOPHORA (FLAGELLATES);

EID: 0034015961     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2000.45.2.0309     Document Type: Article

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