Seasonal and inter-annual variability of plankton chlorophyll and primary production in the Mediterranean Sea: A modelling approach

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 217-233

  Lazzari, P ^a   Solidoro, C ^a   Ibello, V ^a,d   Salon, S ^a   Teruzzi, A ^a   Beranger K ^b   Colella, S ^c   Crise, A ^a  

^a ISTITUTO NAZIONALE DI OCEANOGRAFIA E DI GEOFISICA SPERIMENTALE OGS   (Italy)

^b ENSTA PARISTECH   (France)

^c CNR   (Italy)

^d MIDDLE EAST TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATOLOGY; MESOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; NUTRIENT ENRICHMENT; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PELAGIC ECOSYSTEM; PLANKTON; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84855810973     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-217-2012     Document Type: Article

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