Modeling of the mesoscale structure of coupled upwelling/downwelling events and the related input of nutrients to the upper mixed layer in the Gulf of Finland, baltic sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 113, Issue 5, 2008, Pages

  Zhurbas, Victor ^d   Laanemets, Jaan ^b   Vantera, Emil ^a,c  

^a Environment Centre   (Finland)

^b TALLINN UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Estonia)

^c FINNISH INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Finland)

^d SHIRSHOV INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Russian Federation)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

JETS; LANDFORMS; NITROGEN FIXATION; PHOSPHORUS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

BALTIC SEA; BAROCLINIC; COHERENT STRUCTURE; COLD SIDE; CYANOBACTERIA BLOOMS; DOWN-WELLING; GULF OF FINLAND; HIGH RESOLUTION; IN-SITU; INFRARED IMAGERY; LATERAL DIFFUSIVITY; MESOSCALE; MESOSCALE STRUCTURE; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL STUDIES; NUTRIENT TRANSPORT; PHOSPHATE CONCENTRATION; PSEUDO RANDOM; REDFIELD RATIO; REMOTE MEASUREMENT; SURFACE LAYERS; TEMPERATURE FIELD; TOTAL CONTENT; TRANSVERSE JET; UPPER LAYER; UPWELLING RELAXATION; WHOLE PROCESS;

NUTRIENTS;

CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DOWNWELLING; MESOSCALE EDDY; MIXED LAYER; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHOSPHATE; REMOTE SENSING; UPWELLING; WESTERLY;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; BALTIC SEA; GULF OF FINLAND;

CYANOBACTERIA;

EID: 62149086710     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004280     Document Type: Article

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