Patterns and processes in the California Current System

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 83, Issue 1-4, 2009, Pages 49-64

  Checkley Jr , David M ^a   Barth, John A ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; BOTTOM WATER; CALIFORNIA; CALIFORNIA CURRENT; CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEMS; DOMINANT MODE; FUTURE CLIMATE; MARINE MAMMALS; ME-XICO; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEAN CHEMISTRY; PHYSICAL PROCESS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; WEST COAST; WIND DRIVEN UPWELLING;

ATMOSPHERIC CHEMISTRY; ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; JETS; LANDFORMS; MAMMALS; OCEAN CURRENTS; OCEAN HABITATS; OXYGEN; WIND;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CARBON DIOXIDE; CLIMATE CHANGE; COASTAL CURRENT; COASTAL ZONE; JET FLOW; MICRONEKTON; UPWELLING; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; NORTH AMERICA; PACIFIC OCEAN;

CEPHALOPODA; CETACEA; DECAPODA (CRUSTACEA); EUPHAUSIACEA; MAMMALIA;

EID: 71549120108     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2009.07.028     Document Type: Article

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