A coordinated coastal ocean observing and modeling system for the West Florida Continental Shelf

Harmful Algae

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 585-597

  Weisberg, Robert H ^a   Barth, Alexander ^a,b   Alvera Azcárate, Aida ^a,b   Zheng, Lianyuan ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LIÈGE   (Belgium)

Author keywords

Circulation; Models; Observations; Red tide

Indexed keywords

ALGAE;

EID: 61549111271     PISSN: 15689883     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.hal.2008.11.003     Document Type: Review

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