Spatial patterns of annual and interannual surface chlorophyll-a variability in the Peru-Chile Current System

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 92-95, Issue , 2012, Pages 8-17

  Correa Ramirez, Marco A ^a   Hormazabal, Samuel E ^a   Morales, Carmen E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUSTRAL SPRING; CHLOROPHYLL A; CURRENT SYSTEM; EDDY KINETIC ENERGY; EQUATORIAL REGIONS; INTERANNUAL; MESOSCALE ACTIVITY; MESOSCALE EDDY; OCEANIC REGIONS; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; ROSSBY WAVE; ROSSBY WAVE PROPAGATION; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TELECONNECTIONS; TIME-SCALES; VALUE DECOMPOSITION; WIND STRESS CURL;

NICKEL COMPOUNDS; OCEAN CURRENTS; SINGULAR VALUE DECOMPOSITION; WIND STRESS;

CHLOROPHYLL;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; EQUATORIAL WAVE; KINETIC ENERGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; ROSSBY WAVE; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE DATA; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMESCALE;

CHILE; PERU;

EID: 84155167753     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2011.07.008     Document Type: Article

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