Impact of an unusually large warm-core eddy on distributions of nutrients and phytoplankton in the southwestern Canada Basin during late summer/early fall 2010

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 16, 2011, Pages

  Nishino, Shigeto ^a   Itoh, Motoyo ^a   Kawaguchi, Yusuke ^a   Kikuchi, Takashi ^a   Aoyama, Michio ^b  

^a JAPAN AGENCY FOR MARINE EARTH SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^b METEOROLOGICAL RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE CONTROL; AMMONIUM COMPOUNDS; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA ICE;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA BASIN; DEPTH RANGE; EKMAN PUMPING; EUPHOTIC ZONE; NUTRICLINE; NUTRIENT CONCENTRATIONS; NUTRIENT DISTRIBUTIONS; NUTRIENT SUPPLY; PHYTOPLANKTON DISTRIBUTIONS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SHELF WATERS;

NUTRIENTS;

AMMONIUM; COASTAL WATER; EDDY; EKMAN PUMPING; EUPHOTIC ZONE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEA ICE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURVEY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; CANADA BASIN;

EID: 80052232584     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL047885     Document Type: Article

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