Factors influencing the island-mass effect of the Galápagos Archipelago

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 29, Issue 23, 2002, Pages

  Palacios, Daniel M ^a  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

NITRATES; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REGRESSION ANALYSIS;

ANNUAL MEAN; CHLOROPHYLL A; EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; FIRST PRINCIPAL COMPONENTS; MASS EFFECTS; NATURAL IRON; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; WORLD OCEAN;

STREAM FLOW;

EID: 0036951096     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002GL016232     Document Type: Article

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