Pelagic primary production in the Algero-Provençal Basin by means of multisensor satellite data: Focus on interannual variability and its drivers

Ocean Dynamics

Volumn 61, Issue 7, 2011, Pages 1005-1013

  Olita, Antonio ^a   Sorgente, Roberto ^a   Ribotti, Alberto ^a   Fazioli, Leopoldo ^a   Perilli, Angelo ^a  

^a CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Interannual variability; Mediterranean Sea; Primary production; Satellite; Teleconnections

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL PRODUCTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; CHLOROPHYLL A; CORSICA; DATA SETS; DEEP-WATER FORMATION; EASTERN SIDE; EMPIRICAL ORTHOGONAL FUNCTION; EUPHOTIC LAYERS; INTERANNUAL; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; LOCAL PRODUCTION; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; MULTISENSOR SATELLITES; ORTHOGONAL MODES; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PRODUCTION MAXIMA; PRODUCTION MODELS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SEASONAL AND INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; SPACE AND TIME; SUMMER HEATWAVE; SURFACE LAYERS; TELECONNECTIONS;

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; BLOOMS (METAL); CHLOROPHYLL; SATELLITES; SURFACE WATERS;

ORTHOGONAL FUNCTIONS;

ADVECTION; ALGAL BLOOM; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; COASTAL ZONE; DEEP WATER; EUPHOTIC ZONE; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SATELLITE DATA; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SEASONAL VARIATION; SURFACE WATER; TELECONNECTION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EAST); CORSE; FRANCE; GULF OF ALGHERO; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 81255187781     PISSN: 16167341     EISSN: 16167228     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10236-011-0405-8     Document Type: Article

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