Characteristics of the surface boundary layer important to the development of red tide on the southern Namaqua shelf of the Benguela upwelling system

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 51, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 2660-2674

  Pitcher, Grant C ^a   Nelson, Greville ^b  

^a MARINE AND COASTAL MANAGEMENT   (South Africa)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY LAYER; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DINOFLAGELLATE; MESOSCALE MOTION; MIXED LAYER; OCEANIC CURRENT; RED TIDE; STRATIFICATION; UPWELLING; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BENGUELA CURRENT; NAMAQUALAND SHELF;

AQUILEGIA; DINOPHYCEAE; GYRODINIUM ZETA;

EID: 33845461174     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2006.51.6.2660     Document Type: Article

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