The impact of advective transport by the South Indian Ocean Countercurrent on the madagascar plankton bloom

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 6, 2012, Pages

  Huhn, F ^a,b   Von Kameke, A ^a,c   Perez Munuzuri V ^a,d   Olascoaga, M J ^b   Beron Vera, F J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SANTIAGO DE COMPOSTELA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

^c Northwestern University   (United States)

^d Xunta de Galicia   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; OCEAN HABITATS;

ADVECTIVE TRANSPORT; COUNTER CURRENT; EASTWARD PROPAGATION; FINITE-TIME LYAPUNOV EXPONENT; LARGE PARTS; MADAGASCAR; MERIDIONAL TRANSPORT; NUTRIENT SOURCES; PLANKTON BLOOMS; SATELLITE OCEAN COLOR; SOUTH INDIAN OCEAN; SOUTHERN INDIAN OCEAN; SPATIOTEMPORAL PATTERNS; UPWELLING REGION; ZONAL DRIFT;

BLOOMS (METAL);

ADVECTION; ALGAL BLOOM; COMPUTER SIMULATION; MERIDIONAL CIRCULATION; NUTRIENT CYCLING; VELOCITY; ALTIMETRY; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; COUNTERCURRENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; JET FLOW; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OCEAN COLOR; PLANKTON; WAVE PROPAGATION;

INDIAN OCEAN; MADAGASCAR; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH);

EID: 84859149177     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051246     Document Type: Article

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