Biological enhancement at cyclonic eddies tracked with GOES thermal imagery in Hawaiian waters

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 28, Issue 8, 2001, Pages 1583-1586

  Seki, Michael P ^a   Polovina, Jeffrey J ^a   Brainard, Russell E ^a   Bidigare, Robert R ^b   Leonard, Carrie L ^b   Foley, David G ^b  

^a NATIONAL MARINE FISHERIES SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONIC EDDIES;

ALGAE; CHLOROPHYLL; NITRATES; PRODUCTIVITY; STORMS;

GEOPHYSICS;

EDDY; NITRATE; NUTRIENT CYCLING;

PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 0035870436     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2000GL012439     Document Type: Article

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