SYMPLEX experiment: First results on oceanic mesoscale dynamics and related primary production from AVHRR and SeaWIFS satellite data and field experiments

Proceedings of SPIE - The International Society for Optical Engineering

Volumn 3496, Issue , 1998, Pages 137-148

  Böhm, Emanuele ^c   Buongiorno Nardelli, Bruno ^a   Brunet, Christophe ^e   Casotti, Raffaella ^d   Conversano, Fabio ^d   Corato, Federico ^d   D'Acunzo, Emma ^c   D'Ortenzio, Fabrizio ^c   Iudicone, Daniele ^c   Lazzara, Luigi ^b   Mangoni, Olga ^b,d   Marcelli, Marco ^d   Marullo, Salvatore ^a   Massi, Luca ^b   Mori, Giovanna ^b   Nardello, Ilaria ^b   Nuccio, Caterina ^b   Ribera D'Alcalà, Maurizio ^d   Saggiomo, Vincenzo ^d   Santoleri, Rosalia ^c   Scardi, Michele ^d   Sparnocchia, Stefania ^c   Tozzi, Sasha ^d   Zoffoli, Simona ^c   more..

^a ENEA C R CASACCIA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d STAZIONE ZOOLOGICA ANTON DOHRN   (Italy)

^e Université Littorale

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-OPTICAL; BIOLOGICAL ASPECTS; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; CARBON TRANSFERS; DETECTABILITY; DIFFERENT SCALE; FIELD EXPERIMENTS; FLUORESCENCE PROBES; FOOD WEBS; IN-SITU; IN-SITU DATUM; INCIDENT LIGHTS; LIFE-TIME; MARINE FOOD WEBS; MESO-SCALE; MESO-SCALE EDDIES; MESOSCALE ACTIVITIES; MESOSCALE FEATURES; MESOSCALE VARIABILITIES; NUTRIENT FLUXES; OCEAN COLORS; PHOTIC ZONES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ACTIVITIES; PHOTOSYNTHETIC PARAMETERS; PHYSICAL DYNAMICS; PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTHS; PRIMARY PRODUCTIONS; RELATIVE IMPORTANCES; REMOTE SENSING DATUM; SATELLITE DATUM; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONALITY; SEAWIFS; SUB SURFACES; TEMPORAL SCALE; TRANSIENT STRUCTURES; UPPER OCEANS; WATER MASS; WORLD OCEANS;

ALGAE CONTROL; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DYNAMICS; ECOLOGY; ENGINEERING GEOLOGY; EXPERIMENTS; FOOD ADDITIVES; OCEAN ENGINEERING; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOTE SENSING; SEA LEVEL; SEAWATER; SPACE OPTICS; SPACE PROBES; STORMS; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; THREE DIMENSIONAL; UBIQUITOUS COMPUTING;

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EID: 33750056618     PISSN: 0277786X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1117/12.332717     Document Type: Conference Paper

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