Tracking passive drifters in a high resolution ocean model: Implications for interannual variability of larval krill transport to South Georgia

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 51, Issue 7, 2004, Pages 909-920

  Thorpe, Sally E ^a,b   Heywood, Karen J ^a   Stevens, David P ^a   Brandon, Mark A ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

^c OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

65 30 W); Antarctic Circumpolar Current; Antarctic krill; Lagrangian drifters; Model; Ocean circulation; Scotia Sea (50 65 S; Southern Ocean; Variability

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS;

PASSIVE DRIFTERS; PREDATORS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOLOGICAL DRIFT; CIRCULATION MODELING; LARVAL TRANSPORT;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIA; EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 3042571925     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2004.02.008     Document Type: Article

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