Physical and biogeochemical variability from hours to years at the Bermuda Testbed Mooring site: June 1994-March 1998

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 48, Issue 8-9, 2001, Pages 2105-2140

  Dickey, T ^a   Zedler, S ^a   Yu, X ^a   Doney, S C ^b   Frye, D ^c   Jannasch, H ^d   Manov, D ^a   Sigurdson, D ^a   McNeil, J D ^a   Dobeck, L ^a   Gilboy, T ^a   Bravo, C ^a   Siegel, D A ^a   Nelson, N ^a,e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NATIONAL CENTER FOR ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (United States)

^c WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^d MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^e BERMUDA INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Bermuda)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATOLOGY; DATA ACQUISITION; KINETIC ENERGY; METEOROLOGY; SAMPLING; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; WEATHER MODIFICATION;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL VARIABILITY;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; DATA ACQUISITION; INTERDISCIPLINARY APPROACH; OCEANOGRAPHY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BERMUDA;

EID: 0035026331     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0967-0645(00)00173-9     Document Type: Article

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