How islands cause phytoplankton to bloom in their wakes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 36, Issue 20, 2009, Pages

  Hasegawa, D ^a   Lewis, M R ^a   Gangopadhyay, A ^b  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CYCLONIC EDDY; EUPHOTIC LAYERS; ISLAND WAKES; MASS EFFECTS; NUMERICAL EXPERIMENTS; OCEANIC ISLANDS; PHYSICAL MODEL; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESIDENCE TIME; VORTEX STREET;

ALGAE CONTROL; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON; WAKES; WATER INJECTION;

BLOOMS (METAL);

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOPHYSICS; CYCLONE; EUPHOTIC ZONE; GEOSTROPHIC FLOW; ISLAND; NITRATE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; RESIDENCE TIME; UPWELLING; WAKE;

EID: 72149109793     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009GL039743     Document Type: Article

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