Environmental conditions and bio-optical signature of a coccolithophorid bloom in the Patagonian shelf

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2011, Pages

  Garcia, Carlos Alberto Eiras ^a   Garcia, Virginia Maria Tavano ^a   Dogliotti, Ana Inés ^b   Ferreira, Ambile ^a   Romero, Silvia I ^c   Mannino, Antonio ^d   Souza, Marcio S ^a   Mata, Mauricio M ^a  

^a FEDERAL UNIVERSITY OF RIO GRANDE   (Brazil)

^b INSTITUTO DE ASTRONOMÍA Y FÍSICA DEL ESPACIO   (Argentina)

^c Servicio de Hidrografia Naval   (Argentina)

^d NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOMS (METAL); CARBONATE MINERALS; CHLOROPHYLL; NASA; ORGANIC CARBON; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING;

BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; BACKSCATTERING RATIO; BEAM ATTENUATION COEFFICIENT; BIO-OPTICAL; CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; INORGANIC CARBON; OCEAN-COLOR SATELLITES; OPERATIONAL ALGORITHMS; REMOTE-SENSING REFLECTANCE; ROOT-MEAN-SQUARE ERRORS; SPECTRAL DEPENDENCY; STRONG CORRELATION; TIME-EVOLUTION ANALYSIS; WATER-LEAVING RADIANCES;

BACKSCATTERING;

ALGAL BLOOM; BACKSCATTER; CALCITE; CHLOROPHYLL; COCCOLITH; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTINENTAL SHELF; DATA SET; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; ERROR ANALYSIS; OCEAN COLOR; REFLECTANCE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; PATAGONIAN SHELF;

EMILIANIA HUXLEYI; HAPTOPHYCEAE;

EID: 79953237312     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006595     Document Type: Article

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