The Continuous Plankton Recorder survey and the North Atlantic Oscillation: Interannual- to Multidecadal-scale patterns of phytoplankton variability in the North Atlantic Ocean

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 57, Issue 2-4, 2003, Pages 337-358

  Barton, A D ^a   Greene, C H ^a   Monger, B C ^a   Pershing, A J ^a  

^a Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate; Continuous Plankton Recorder; North Atlantic Ocean; North Atlantic Oscillation; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDING; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; MARINE BIOLOGY; OSCILLATIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; COLOR; CORRELATION METHODS; SURVEYING; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CONTINUOUS PLANKTON RECORDER (CPR); ZOOPLANKTON DYNAMICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOLOGICAL SURVEY; DECADAL VARIATION; NORTH ATLANTIC OSCILLATION; PLANKTON; OCEAN COLOR; PHYTOPLANKTON; POPULATION DYNAMICS; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

CLIMATIC VARIABILITY; MULTIDECADAL TIME SCALES;

EID: 1642312244     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2003.08.012     Document Type: Conference Paper

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