Vertical mixing and the effects of solar radiation on photosystem II electron transport by phytoplankton in the Ross Sea Polynya

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 63, Issue , 2012, Pages 118-132

  Neale, Patrick J ^a   Sobrino, Cristina ^a,c   Gargett, Ann E ^b,d  

^a SMITHSONIAN ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

^b OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

^d INSTITUTE OF OCEAN SCIENCES   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic backscatter; Fast repetition rate fluorometry; Mixing processes; Photosynthesis; Phytoplankton; Southern Ocean; Turbulence

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER; ANTARCTICA; ELECTRON TRANSPORT; INTERNAL WAVES; INTRINSIC EFFICIENCY; LANGMUIR CIRCULATIONS; MICROBUBBLES; MIXED LAYER; MIXING PROCESS; NEAR-SURFACE; PHAEOCYSTIS; PHOTOSYNTHETIC ELECTRON TRANSPORT; PHOTOSYSTEM II; REPETITION RATE; ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; SUB-SURFACES; SURFACE CONDITIONS; THORPE SCALE; TIME-SCALES; VERTICAL GRADIENTS; VERTICAL MIXING; VERTICAL TRANSPORTS; WATER COLUMNS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ELECTRON TRANSITIONS; FLUOROMETERS; MIXING; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHYTOPLANKTON; QUANTUM EFFICIENCY; SEA ICE; SUN; SURFACE WAVES; TURBULENCE;

ELECTRON TRANSPORT PROPERTIES;

ADVECTION; ALGA; BACKSCATTER; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; COMMUNITY COMPOSITION; DOMINANCE; FLUOROMETRY; INTERNAL WAVE; LANGMUIR CIRCULATION; PHOTOSYNTHESIS; PHOTOSYNTHETICALLY ACTIVE RADIATION; PHYTOPLANKTON; POLYNYA; TURBULENCE; VERTICAL MIXING;

ROSS SEA; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

PHAEOCYSTIS ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84857003682     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2012.01.011     Document Type: Article

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