Microbial absorption and backscattering coefficients from in situ and POLDER satellite data during an El Niño-Southern Oscillation cold phase in the equatorial Pacific (180°)

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 108, Issue 12, 2003, Pages

  Dupouy, Cécile ^a,b   Loisel, Hubert ^c   Neveux, Jacques ^b,d   Brown, Susan L ^e   Moulin, Cyril ^a   Blanchot, Jean ^f   Le Bouteiller, Aubert ^b   Landry, Michael R ^e  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^c UNIV LILLE   (France)

^d Laboratoire d Océanographie Microbienne   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f IRD Sainte Clotilde   (France)

Author keywords

Absorption; Backscattering; El Ni o; Equatorial Pacific; Microbial population; Ocean color

Indexed keywords

ABSORPTION; BACKSCATTER; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; MICROBIAL COMMUNITY; OCEAN COLOR; POLDER;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

PROCHLOROCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS;

EID: 1842761752     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2001jc001298     Document Type: Article

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