Tropical Atlantic variability in a coupled physical-biogeochemical ocean model

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 50, Issue 22-26, 2003, Pages 2947-2969

  Christian, James R ^a,b   Murtugudde, Ragu ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CLIMATE CHANGE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; COOLING; EVAPORATION; TEMPERATURE; WIND EFFECTS;

PHYTOPLANKTON; UPWELLING ZONES;

MARINE BIOLOGY;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; SEASONALITY; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPWELLING; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

EID: 0348077448     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2003.07.005     Document Type: Article

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