The impact of turbulence and phytoplankton dynamics on foam formation, seawater viscosity and chlorophyll concentration in the eastern English Channel

Oceanologia

Volumn 50, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 167-182

  Kesaulya, Irma ^a,b   Leterme, Sophie C ^a   Mitchell, James G ^a   Seuront, Laurent ^a,c,d  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b PATTIMURA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences   (France)

Author keywords

Foam; Phytoplankton; Plankton rheology; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEAWATER; TURBULENCE; WATER MASS; WAVE BREAKING; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ENGLISH CHANNEL; EURASIA; EUROPE; WESTERN EUROPE;

PHAEOCYSTIS GLOBOSA;

EID: 52349122603     PISSN: 00783234     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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