Modeled and observed impacts of the 1997-1998 El Niño on nitrate and new production in the equatorial Pacific

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 106, Issue C11, 2001, Pages 26879-26898

  Radenac, M H ^a,b,h   Menkes, C ^a,e   Vialard, J ^a,e   Moulin, C ^b,g   Dandonneau, Y ^a,e   Delcroix, T ^c   Dupouy, C ^a,e   Stoens, A ^b,g   Deschamps, P Y ^d,f  

^a SORBONNE UNIVERSITÉ   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^d Laboratoire d'Optique Atmosphérique CNRS   (France)

^e LODYC   (France)

^f Université des Sciences et Technologies de Lille   (France)

^g LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

^h LEGOS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; EL NINO; GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; NITRATE;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035211046     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000jc000546     Document Type: Review

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