Volcanic ash fuels anomalous plankton bloom in subarctic northeast Pacific

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 37, Issue 19, 2010, Pages

  Hamme, Roberta C ^a   Webley, Peter W ^b   Crawford, William R ^c   Whitney, Frank A ^c   Degrandpre, Michael D ^d   Emerson, Steven R ^e   Eriksen, Charles C ^e   Giesbrecht, Karina E ^a   Gower, Jim F R ^c   Kavanaugh, Maria T ^f   Pea, M Angelica ^c   Sabine, Christopher L ^g   Batten, Sonia D ^h   Coogan, Laurence A ^a   Grundle, Damian S ^a   Lockwood, Deirdre ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^c INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^f OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^h THE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOMS (METAL); CHLOROPHYLL; CONCRETE AGGREGATES; PHYTOPLANKTON; PORPHYRINS;

ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; ATMOSPHERIC CO; CARBON EXPORT; IRON FERTILIZATION; NEW MECHANISMS; NORTH PACIFIC; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; PLANKTON BLOOMS; SURFACE OCEAN; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTIONS;

VOLCANOES;

ALGAL BLOOM; CARBON DIOXIDE; CARBON SEQUESTRATION; CHLOROPHYLL; DIATOM; FERTILIZER; FLUORESCENCE; IRON; PH; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA SURFACE; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT; SUBARCTIC REGION; VOLCANIC ASH; VOLCANIC ERUPTION;

ALASKA; ALEUTIAN ISLANDS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); UNITED STATES;

BACILLARIOPHYTA;

EID: 77957691950     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010GL044629     Document Type: Article

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