Bio-optical observations of the 2004 Labrador Sea phytoplankton bloom

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 11, 2011, Pages

  Strutton, Peter G ^a   Martz, Todd R ^b   Degrandpre, Michael D ^c   McGillis, Wade R ^d   Drennan, William M ^e   Boss, Emmanuel ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MONTANA   (United States)

^d Doherty Earth Observatory of Columbia University   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGAE CONTROL; CHLOROPHYLL; DOPPLER EFFECT; OPTICAL DATA PROCESSING; PHYTOPLANKTON; SUN; TIME SERIES;

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; BEAM ATTENUATION; BIO-OPTICAL; BIO-OPTICAL MEASUREMENTS; BIOLOGICAL-PHYSICAL COUPLING; CARBON EXPORT; ENHANCED ATTENUATION; IN-SITU; INTERPRETATION OF DATA; LABRADOR SEA; LIGHT LEVEL; MIXED LAYER; OCEAN OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OPEN OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; PROFILING FLOAT; RELATIVE ABUNDANCE; SMALL PARTICLES; UPPER-END;

BLOOMS (METAL);

ACOUSTIC DOPPLER CURRENT PROFILER; ALGAL BLOOM; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; BIOPHYSICS; CHLOROPHYLL; CRUSTACEAN; DATA SET; OBSERVATIONAL METHOD; OPEN OCEAN; PHYTOPLANKTON; PIGMENT; SALINITY; SATELLITE DATA; SOLAR RADIATION; TIME SERIES; ZOOPLANKTON;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; LABRADOR SEA;

COPEPODA;

EID: 82355184419     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2010JC006872     Document Type: Article

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