Seasonal and interannual variability of particulate organic carbon within the Southern Ocean from satellite ocean color observations

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2010, Pages

  Allison, David B ^a   Stramski, Dariusz ^a   Mitchell, B Greg ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b INTEGRATIVE OCEANOGRAPHY DIVISION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ORGANIC CARBON; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES;

ANTARCTIC ZONE; AUSTRAL SPRING; BAND RATIOS; BASIN SCALE; DOMINANT CONTRIBUTIONS; FIELD DATA; HIGHER LATITUDES; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; LARGE-SCALE SATELLITES; LONG-TERM TREND; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; OCEAN COLOR; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; REMOTE-SENSING REFLECTANCE; SATELLITE OCEAN COLOR; SEA-VIEWING WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW SENSORS; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WATER COLUMNS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ALGORITHM; ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOACCUMULATION; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; OCEAN COLOR; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBANTARCTIC REGION; WATER COLUMN;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 77954512691     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2009JC005347     Document Type: Article

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