Horizontal advection, diffusion, and plankton spectra at the sea surface

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 114, Issue 2, 2009, Pages

  Bracco, Annalisa ^a   Clayton, Sophie ^b,c   Pasquero, Claudia ^d  

^a GEORGIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; ALGAE CONTROL; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; DIFFUSION; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEAN HABITATS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SURFACE CHEMISTRY; SURFACE WATERS;

BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; COHERENT STRUCTURE; DIFFERENTIAL DIFFUSION; DISTRIBUTION OF TEMPERATURE; DOMINANT PROCESS; GENERATING MECHANISM; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEAN SURFACES; PHYSICAL PROCESS; REACTION TIME; REACTIVE TRACER; ROLE OF DIFFUSION; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEA SURFACES; SPATIAL SCALE; SPECTRAL SLOPES; TURBULENT MEDIA;

SURFACE DIFFUSION;

ADVECTION; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; GEOGRAPHICAL DISTRIBUTION; PATCHINESS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; TRACER; TURBULENT DIFFUSION; UPWELLING; ZOOPLANKTON;

EID: 66149173555     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2007JC004671     Document Type: Article

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