Seasonal variations of chlorophyll a concentration in the Northern South China Sea

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 315-319

  Shen, Suhung ^a,b   Leptoukh, Gregory G ^b   Acker, James G ^b,c   Yu, Zuojun ^d   Kempler, Steven J ^b  

^a GEORGE MASON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c RS Information System Inc   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATIONS; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATIONS; DATA ANALYSIS; DATA EXPLORATIONS; NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEAS; SEA-SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL VARIATIONS; SEAWIFS; SPATIAL STRUCTURES; SURROUNDING REGIONS; VISUALIZATION TOOLS; WINTER MONSOONS;

BLOOMS (METAL); CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATOLOGY; DATA VISUALIZATION; LANDFORMS; PORPHYRINS; SEAWATER; SUBMARINE GEOPHYSICS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

EID: 58149108554     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2008.915932     Document Type: Article

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