A study of the freshwater discharge from the Amazon River into the tropical Atlantic using multi-sensor data

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2005, Pages 1-4

  Jo, Young Heon ^a   Yan, Xiao Hai ^a,b   Dzwonkowski, Brian ^a   Liu, W Timothy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATTENUATION; CHLOROPHYLL; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); DATA REDUCTION; DIFFUSERS (FLUID); SENSORS; WATER;

CHLROPHYLL CONCENTRATION (CHL_A); DIFFUSE ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT (DAC); FRESHWATER DISCHARGE; MULTI-SENSOR DATA;

RIVERS;

FRESHWATER INPUT; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER DISCHARGE;

AMAZON RIVER; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (TROPICAL); OCEANIC REGIONS; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 16344371662     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL021840     Document Type: Article

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