Production and fate of transparent exopolymer particles in the ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 116, Issue 12, 2011, Pages

  Wurl, Oliver ^a,b   Miller, Lisa ^a   Vagle, Svein ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

^b Old Dominion University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LAKES; OCEANOGRAPHY; RECYCLING; SEA ICE; SURFACE WAVES; SURFACES; THERMOELECTRIC POWER;

AGGREGATION RATE; ARCTIC OCEAN; CONCEPTUAL MODEL; DEEP OCEAN; DEPTH PROFILE; INTERFACIAL LAYER; LIGHT PENETRATION; MARINE CARBON CYCLE; MICROBIAL LIFE; MIXED LAYER; NORTH PACIFIC; OCEANIC REGIONS; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; PRECURSOR MATERIALS; SEA SURFACE MICROLAYER; SEA-SURFACE MICROLAYERS; THIN SURFACE FILMS; TRANSPARENT EXOPOLYMER PARTICLES; WATER COLUMNS; WAVE PROPERTIES;

AGGLOMERATION;

ALGAL BLOOM; ATMOSPHERE-OCEAN SYSTEM; CARBON CYCLE; DEEP SEA; EXOPOLYMER; HETEROTROPHY; MICROBIAL ACTIVITY; MICROLAYER; PARTICLE SIZE; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLAR REGION; PROTIST; SEA ICE; SEA SURFACE; SURFACE WATER; SURFACE WAVE; TROPICAL REGION; WATER COLUMN; ZOOPLANKTON;

ARCTIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); PACIFIC OCEAN (TROPICAL);

ALGAE; PROTISTA;

EID: 84855440286     PISSN: None     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011JC007342     Document Type: Article

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