Regional and interannual variability of ecosystem dynamics in the Southern Ocean

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 1-10

  Hense, Inga ^a,b   Timmermann, Ralph ^a,c   Beckmann, Aike ^a   Bathmann, Ulrich V ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c UNIVERSITÉ CATHOLIQUE DE LOUVAIN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

ACW; Coupled ice ocean ecosystem model; Interannual variability; Plankton biomass; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

ACW; ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR WAVE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; PHYSICAL-BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; PLANKTON BIOMASS; S-COORDINATE PRIMITIVE EQUATION MODELS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PLANKTON;

ICE;

EID: 0041803139     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-002-0015-6     Document Type: Article

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