Assimilating satellite ocean-colour observations into oceanic ecosystem models

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 361, Issue 1802, 2003, Pages 33-39

  Hemmings, John C P ^a   Srokosz, Meric A ^a   Challenor, Peter ^a   Fasham, Michael J R ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Biogeochemistry; Marine plankton; Parameter estimation

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; NITRATE;

ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING; METABOLISM; PHYSIOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA; SPACE FLIGHT; STATISTICAL MODEL; STATISTICS; ZOOPLANKTON;

ANIMALS; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEM; IMAGE PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MODELS, STATISTICAL; NITRATES; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SPACECRAFT; STATISTICS; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 0037440181     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2002.1104     Document Type: Article

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