The Arabian Sea as a high-nutrient, low-chlorophyll region during the late Southwest Monsoon

Biogeosciences

Volumn 7, Issue 7, 2010, Pages 2091-2100

  Naqvi, S W A ^a   Moffett, J W ^b   Gauns, M U ^a   Narvekar, P V ^a   Pratihary, A K ^a   Naik, H ^a   Shenoy, D M ^a   Jayakumar, D A ^c   Goepfert, T J ^d   Patra, P K ^e   Al Azri, A ^f   Ahmed, S I ^f  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c PRINCETON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f SULTAN QABOOS UNIVERSITY   (Oman)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BOTTOM WATER; CHLOROPHYLL; IRON; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MONSOON; OXYGEN; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SNOW COVER; UPWELLING;

ARABIAN SEA; INDIAN OCEAN;

EID: 77954354378     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-7-2091-2010     Document Type: Article

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