Influences of the Gulf of Maine intrusion on the Massachusetts Bay spring bloom: A comparison between 1998 and 2000

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 27, Issue 19, 2007, Pages 2465-2485

  Jiang, Mingshun ^a   Zhou, Meng ^a   Libby, Scott ^b   Hunt, Carlton D ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS BOSTON   (United States)

^b BATTELLE MEMORIAL INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Climate changes; Coastal current; Gulf of Maine; Massachusetts Bay; Numerical modeling; Spring bloom

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL CURRENT; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); GRAZING PRESSURE; MIXING; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYTOPLANKTON; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BOSTON HARBOR; CAPE COD BAY; GULF OF MAINE; MASSACHUSETTS; MASSACHUSETTS BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 35548935733     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2007.06.009     Document Type: Article

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