On the relationship between fronts of the Antarctic Circumpolar Current and surface chlorophyll concentrations in the Southern Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 112, Issue 7, 2007, Pages

  Sokolov, Serguei ^a   Rintoul, Stephen R ^a  

^a ANTARCTIC CLIMATE AND ECOSYSTEMS COOPERATIVE RESEARCH CENTRE   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BATHYMETRY; CHLOROPHYLL; FLOW INTERACTIONS; JETS; NUTRIENTS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEANOGRAPHY; TOPOGRAPHY;

BATHYMETRY; BOTTOM PRESSURE; CHLOROPHYLL; CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; FRONT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; TOPOGRAPHY; UPWELLING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 34548625950     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2006JC004072     Document Type: Article

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