Eddy-induced cross-slope exchange maintaining summer high productivity of the Bering Sea shelf break

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 111, Issue 10, 2006, Pages

  Mizobata, Kohei ^a   Wang, Jia ^a   Saitoh, Sei Ichi ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; COASTAL ZONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; OCEANOGRAPHY;

CHLOROPHYLL A; HYDROGRAPHY; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUMERICAL MODEL; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SHELF BREAK;

BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EID: 33845633770     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2005JC003335     Document Type: Article

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