Summer sea surface temperature fronts and elevated chlorophyll-a in the entrance to Spencer Gulf, South Australia

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 7-8, 2011, Pages 849-856

  Petrusevics, Peter ^a   Bye, John ^b,c   Luick, John ^c   Teixeira, Carlos E P ^c,d  

^a FLINDERS UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MELBOURNE   (Australia)

^c SOUTH AUSTRALIAN RESEARCH AND DEVELOPMENT INSTITUTE   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a; Density minima; MODIS satellite data; Sea surface temperature fronts; Spencer gulf; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

AGEOSTROPHIC FLOW; CHLOROPHYLL; CONTINENTAL SHELF; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OCEANOGRAPHY; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING; WATER MASS;

INDIAN OCEAN; SPENCER GULF;

EID: 79953741937     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.02.009     Document Type: Article

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