Implications of changing El Niño patterns for biological dynamics in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2011, Pages

  Turk, D ^a,b   Meinen, C S ^c   Antoine, D ^d   McPhaden, M J ^e   Lewis, M R ^a  

^a DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^c ATLANTIC OCEANOGRAPHIC AND METEOROLOGICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^e NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; DYNAMICS;

BIOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; BIOLOGICAL PARAMETER; BIOLOGICAL PROCESS; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CENTRAL BASIN; CHLOROPHYLL A; EASTERN PACIFIC; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; EQUATORIAL BANDS; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; GLOBAL ARRAYS; IN-SITU; NEW PRODUCTION; OBSERVING SYSTEMS; OCEAN-COLOR SATELLITES; PHYSICAL MEASUREMENT; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SURFACE CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; CHLOROPHYLL; ECOSYSTEM STRUCTURE; EL NINO; FUTURE PROSPECT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; OCEAN COLOR; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 82955184565     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL049674     Document Type: Article

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