Eddy-induced reduction of biological production in eastern boundary upwelling systems

Nature Geoscience

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 787-792

  Gruber, Nicolas ^a   Lachkar, Zouhair ^a   Frenzel, Hartmut ^b   Marchesiello, Patrick ^c   Münnich, Matthias ^a   McWilliams, James C ^b,d   Nagai, Takeyoshi ^e   Plattner, Gian Kasper ^a,f  

^a ETH ZURICH   (Switzerland)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c LEGOS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^e TOKYO UNIVERSITY OF MARINE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^f UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; EASTERN BOUNDARY CURRENT; EDDY; FLUX MEASUREMENT; KINETIC ENERGY; NEARSHORE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; NUTRIENT LIMITATION; OCEANIC FRONT; OPEN OCEAN; ORGANIC MATTER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; UPWELLING;

SOUTHERN OCEAN;

EID: 80455129572     PISSN: 17520894     EISSN: 17520908     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/ngeo1273     Document Type: Article

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