Environmental factors controlling the Barents Sea spring-summer phytoplankton blooms

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 10, 2009, Pages

  Signorini, Sergio R ^a   McClain, Charles R ^b  

^a SAIC FREDERICK INC   (United States)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC CO; BARENTS SEA; COCCOLITHOPHORE; COCCOLITHOPHORES; DERIVED PRODUCTS; ENHANCED UPTAKE; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS; FIELD CAMPAIGN; HIGH CONCENTRATION; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; MIXED LAYER DEPTHS; OCEAN-COLOR SATELLITES; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; SATELLITE REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL CHANGES; SOLAR IRRADIANCES; STRONG CORRELATION; WIND SPEED;

ALGAE CONTROL; CALCITE; CARBONATE MINERALS; FUNCTIONAL GROUPS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

BLOOMS (METAL);

ALGAL BLOOM; ALGORITHM; CALCITE; COCCOLITH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; OCEAN COLOR; REMOTE SENSING; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUMMER;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA;

BACILLARIOPHYTA; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 67651095617     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL037695     Document Type: Article

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