Phytoplankton pigment in the Gulf of St. Lawrence, Canada, as determined by the Coastal Zone Color Scanner - Part II: Multivariate analysis

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 17, Issue 12, 1997, Pages 1441-1459

  Fuentes Yaco, C ^a   Vezina A F ^b   Larouche, P ^b   Gratton, Y ^c   Gosselin, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b FISHERIES AND OCEANS CANADA   (Canada)

^c INSTITUT NATIONAL DE LA RECHERCHE SCIENTIFIQUE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CZCS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; MULTIVARIATE ANALYSIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT CONCENTRATION; PIGMENTS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE SENSING; SPATIO-TEMPORAL VARIATION; WIND STRESS;

GULF OF ST LAWRENCE;

EID: 0342981448     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0278-4343(97)00022-8     Document Type: Article

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