Comment on "eddy/wind interactions stimulate extraordinary mid-ocean plankton blooms"

Science

Volumn 320, Issue 5875, 2008, Pages

  Mahadevan, Amala ^a   Thomas, Leif N ^b   Tandon, Amit ^c  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; GEOLOGY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; NUTRIENT; OCEAN CURRENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; WIND;

ANIMALS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PLANKTON; SEAWATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; WIND;

EID: 42549113025     PISSN: 00368075     EISSN: 10959203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1126/science.1152111     Document Type: Note

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15. The authors are supported by NSF OCE-0623264 (A.T. and A.M.) and OCE-0549699 and OCE-0612058 (L.N.T.).