Oceanic Rossby Waves Acting As a "Hay Rake" for Ecosystem Floating By-Products

Science

Volumn 302, Issue 5650, 2003, Pages 1548-1551

  Dandonneau, Yves ^a   Vega, Andres ^a   Loisel, Hubert ^b   Du Penhoat, Yves ^a   Menkes, Christophe ^a  

^a INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU LITTORAL CÔTE D OPALE   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; NUTRITION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; WATER WAVES;

WATER INDUCED CONVERGENCES; WATER INDUCED UPWELLING;

ECOSYSTEMS;

CHLOROPHYLL; COLOR; ECOSYSTEM; GYRE; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; ROSSBY WAVE; UPWELLING;

ARTICLE; ECOLOGICAL NICHE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; OBSERVATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA LEVEL;

ALGORITHMS; CHLOROPHYLL; COLOR; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECOSYSTEM; LIGHT; OCEANOGRAPHY; OPTICS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SEAWATER; SPACECRAFT; TEMPERATURE; WATER MOVEMENTS; WIND;

EID: 0345374588     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1090729     Document Type: Article

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