Did the northeastern Gulf of Mexico become greener after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Hu, Chuanmin ^a   Weisberg, Robert H ^a   Liu, Yonggang ^a   Zheng, Lianyuan ^a   Daly, Kendra L ^a   English, David C ^a   Zhao, Jun ^a   Vargo, Gabriel A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEMS; OFFSHORE OIL WELLS; OIL SPILLS; OIL WELLS;

BIOLOGICAL CHANGES; CHLOROPHYLL A; DEEPWATER; DISPERSANTS; ENVIRONMENTAL DATA; FLORIDA KEYS; FLUORESCENCE LINE HEIGHT; FOOD WEBS; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; NORTHEASTERN GULF OF MEXICO; NUMERICAL CIRCULATION MODEL; OCEAN CIRCULATION; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; SATELLITE MEASUREMENTS;

MARINE POLLUTION;

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; CIRCULATION MODELING; DATA SET; DEEP WATER; FOOD WEB; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MIXING; MODIS; NUMERICAL MODEL; OCEANIC CIRCULATION; OIL SPILL; PHYTOPLANKTON; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ALABAMA; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FLORIDA KEYS; FLORIDA [UNITED STATES]; GULF OF MEXICO; MOBILE BAY; UNITED STATES;

EID: 79955576516     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047184     Document Type: Article

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