Phytoplankton response to intrusions of slope water on the West Florida Shelf: Models and observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 6, 2003, Pages

  Walsh, John J ^a   Weisberg, Robert H ^a   Dieterle, Dwight A ^a   He, Ruoying ^a   Darrow, Brian P ^a   Jolliff, Jason K ^a   Lester, Kristen M ^a   Vargo, Gabriel A ^a   Kirkpatrick, Gary J ^b   Fanning, Kent A ^a   Sutton, Tracey T ^a   Jochens, Ann E ^c   Biggs, Douglas C ^c   Nababan, Bisman ^a   Hu, Chuanmin ^a   Muller Karger, Frank E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b MOTE MARINE LABORATORY   (United States)

^c TEXAS A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Predicting redtides; West Florida shelf ecology

Indexed keywords

CONTINENTAL SLOPE; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; RED TIDE; UPWELLING;

FLORIDA SHELF; GULF OF MEXICO;

EID: 0141836153     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2002jc001406     Document Type: Article

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