Bio-optical footprints created by mesoscale eddies in the Sargasso Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 13, 2011, Pages

  Siegel, D A ^a   Peterson, P ^a   McGillicuddy, D J ^b   Maritorena, S ^a   Nelson, N B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; COLOR PRINTING; PUMPS; STATISTICAL TESTS;

BIO-OPTICAL; BIO-OPTICAL PROPERTIES; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; EDDY-ADVECTION; FIRST ORDER; HORIZONTAL GRADIENTS; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUTRIENT DISTRIBUTIONS; OCEAN COLOR; PUMPING MECHANISM; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SPATIAL TEMPORALS; STATISTICAL HYPOTHESIS TEST;

OPTICAL PROPERTIES;

ADVECTION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; EKMAN PUMPING; HYPOTHESIS TESTING; MESOSCALE EDDY; NUTRIENT BUDGET; OCEAN COLOR; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBSURFACE FLOW;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; SARGASSO SEA;

EID: 79960547748     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047660     Document Type: Article

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