Coupling between the thermohaline, chemical and biological fields during two contrasting upwelling events off the NW Iberian Peninsula

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 20, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 189-210

  Castro, Carmen G ^a   Perez F F ^a   Alvarez Salgado X A ^a   Fraga, F ^a  

^a INSTITUTO DE INVESTIGACIONES MARINAS   (Spain)

Author keywords

Chemical and biological; Coastal upwelling; Nutrients; NW Iberian Peninsula; Oceanography

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; CHEMICAL OCEANOGRAPHY; HYDROGRAPHY; SPRING (SEASON); SUMMER; UPWELLING;

EUROPE;

EID: 0342615017     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(99)00071-0     Document Type: Article

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