Effects of the 1997-98 El Niño on seasonal variations in suspended and sinking particles in the Santa Barbara basin

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 54, Issue 1-4, 2002, Pages 105-127

  Shipe, R F ^a   Passow, U ^a   Brzezinski, M A ^a   Graham, W M ^b   Pak, D K ^a   Siegel, D A ^a   Alldredge, A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH ALABAMA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; SEDIMENT TRAPS; SEDIMENTATION; SURFACE WATERS;

THERMOCLINE;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EL NINO; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUSPENDED PARTICULATE MATTER;

CALIFORNIA; SANTA BARBARA; UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 0036375155     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0079-6611(02)00045-9     Document Type: Review

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