Revisiting the La Niña 1998 phytoplankton blooms in the equatorial Pacific

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 57, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 567-576

  Gorgues, Thomas ^a   Menkes, C ^b   Slemons, L ^c   Aumont, O ^d   Dandonneau, Y ^e   Radenac, M H ^f   Alvain, S ^g   Moulin, C ^g  

^a IRD Centre de Bretagne   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (New Caledonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^d Centre Bretagne   (France)

^e UNIVERSITÉ PIERRE ET MARIE CURIE   (France)

^f LEGOS   (France)

^g LABORATOIRE DES SCIENCES DU CLIMAT ET DE L ENVIRONNEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

1997 1998; Blooms; ENSO; Equatorial Pacific; Iron; La Ni a; Model; Phytoplankton

Indexed keywords

1997-1998; BIOGEOCHEMICAL MODELS; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL VARIABILITY; BLOOMS; CONCENTRATION OF; DISSOLVED IRON; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EASTERN PACIFIC; ENSO; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL UNDERCURRENTS; GRAZING PRESSURE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; IRON CONCENTRATIONS; IRON FLUXES; IRON SOURCES; NEW GUINEA COASTAL UNDERCURRENT; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; RE-SUSPENSION; REMOTE PROCESS; SOURCE REGION; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TIME-AVERAGED; TROPICAL INSTABILITY WAVES; WESTERN PACIFIC; WIND DRIVEN UPWELLING;

ALGAE CONTROL; BLOOMS (METAL); CHLOROPHYLL; DISSOLUTION; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PORPHYRINS; TIME MEASUREMENT;

WIND EFFECTS;

ALGAL BLOOM; ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; DISSOLVED MATTER; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; IRON; LA NINA; PHYTOPLANKTON; THERMOCLINE; UNDERCURRENT;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

ALGAE;

EID: 77949773307     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2009.12.008     Document Type: Article

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