On the role of tides and strong wind events in promoting summer primary production in the Barents Sea

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2011, Pages 1869-1879

  Le Fouest, Vincent ^a   Postlethwaite, Clare ^b   Morales Maqueda, Miguel Angel ^b   Bélanger, Simon ^c   Babin, Marcel ^d,e,f  

^a SCOTTISH MARINE INSTITUTE   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^d UNIVERSITÉ LAVAL   (Canada)

^e CNRS   (France)

^f LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

Barents Sea; Physical forcing; Physical biological modelling; Phytoplankton primary production

Indexed keywords

ALGAL BLOOM; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATE FORCING; CONTINENTAL SHELF; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; GLOBAL CHANGE; ICE-OCEAN INTERACTION; MARGINAL ICE ZONE; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; STRATIFICATION; SUMMER; TIDAL CYCLE; WIND DIRECTION; WIND VELOCITY;

ARCTIC OCEAN; BARENTS SEA; KOLA PENINSULA; MURMANSK [RUSSIAN FEDERATION]; RUSSIAN FEDERATION; SVALBARD MARGIN;

EID: 80053938412     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.08.013     Document Type: Article

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