Seasonal and inter-annual changes in the surface chlorophyll of the South China Sea

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 9, 2011, Pages

  Palacz, Artur P ^a   Xue, Huijie ^a   Armbrecht, Carrie ^a   Zhang, Caiyun ^b   Chai, Fei ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC PRESSURE; CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); TIME SERIES; WIND EFFECTS;

CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; DEEP BASIN; HILBERT HUANG TRANSFORMS; INTERANNUAL; PHYSICAL-BIOLOGICAL INTERACTIONS; PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH; SATELLITE WINDS; SOUTH CHINA SEA; SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; STRONG CORRELATION; SURFACE AREA; SURFACE CHLOROPHYLL; SURFACE WIND SPEED; TEMPORAL TRENDS; TIME-SCALES; WIND SPEED;

CHLOROPHYLL;

ANNUAL VARIATION; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GROWTH RATE; NUTRIENT CYCLING; PHYTOPLANKTON; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEA SURFACE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER; TIME SERIES; TREND ANALYSIS; WIND VELOCITY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 80053004843     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007064     Document Type: Article

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