Time variability of acoustic backscatter from zooplankton in the Ibiza Channel (western Mediterranean)

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 48, Issue 7, 2001, Pages 1651-1670

  Pinot, J M ^a   Jansa J ^b  

^a Section de Géodésie Géophysique   (France)

^b INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

0 1.5 E; 38.5 39.5 N; Balearic Sea; Ibiza Channel; Irradiance; Mediterranean; Sound scattering; Spain; Vertical migrations; Zooplankton

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; BIODIVERSITY; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DOPPLER EFFECT; EROSION;

SURFACE LAYERS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ACOUSTIC METHOD;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 0035022877     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0637(00)00095-9     Document Type: Article

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