Mechanisms controlling primary and new production in a global ecosystem model - Part II: The role of the upper ocean short-term periodic and episodic mixing events

Ocean Science

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 267-279

  Popova, E E ^a   Coward, A C ^a   Nurser, G A ^a   De Cuevas, B ^a   Anderson, T R ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; DIURNAL VARIATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GYRE; MIXING; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STORM; STRATIFICATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; UPPER OCEAN;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

ALGAE;

EID: 33845361908     PISSN: 18120784     EISSN: 18120792     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/os-2-267-2006     Document Type: Article

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