On the relationship between stratification and primary productivity in the North Atlantic

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 18, 2011, Pages

  Lozier, M Susan ^a   Dave, Apurva C ^a   Palter, Jaime B ^b   Gerber, Lisa M ^a   Barber, Richard T ^a  

^a DUKE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLIMATE CHANGE; NUTRIENTS; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRODUCTIVITY; SURFACE WATERS; TROPICS;

BUOYANCY FORCING; CLIMATE VARIABILITY AND CHANGE; CORRELATIVE RELATIONSHIP; EUPHOTIC ZONE; GLOBAL OCEAN; INTERANNUAL TIME SCALE; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; NORTH ATLANTIC; OBSERVATIONAL DATA; OBSERVATIONAL STUDY; PRIMARY PRODUCTIVITY; SUBTROPICAL GYRE; TEMPERATURE RESPONSE; TIME-SCALES; UPPER OCEAN; UPPER OCEAN WATER; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER COLUMNS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOMASS; EUPHOTIC ZONE; GLOBAL OCEAN; GYRE; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; PARADIGM SHIFT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEAWATER; STRATIFICATION; SUBTROPICAL REGION; SURFACE WATER; TEMPERATURE EFFECT; TIMESCALE; TROPICAL ENVIRONMENT; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER COLUMN; WIND FORCING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH);

EID: 80053556273     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049414     Document Type: Article

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