Inter-annual productivity variability in the North Aegean Sea: Influence of thermohaline circulation during the Eastern Mediterranean Transient

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 96-97, Issue , 2012, Pages 72-81

  Tsiaras, K P ^a   Kourafalou, V H ^b   Raitsos, D E ^a   Triantafyllou, G ^a   Petihakis, G ^a   Korres, G ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MIAMI   (United States)

Author keywords

Aegean Sea; Dense water formation; Eastern Mediterranean Transient; Modelling; Primary production; Thermohaline circulation; Variability

Indexed keywords

AEGEAN SEA; DENSE WATERS; EASTERN MEDITERRANEAN; MODELLING; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATIONS; VARIABILITY;

LAKES; MIXING; PRODUCTIVITY; STREAM FLOW;

NUTRIENTS;

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CHLOROPHYLL A; CIRCULATION MODELING; DENSE WATER; EUPHOTIC ZONE; INFLOW; NUTRIENT DYNAMICS; OPEN OCEAN; PRECIPITATION (CLIMATOLOGY); PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SEA SURFACE SALINITY; SEA SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; THERMOHALINE CIRCULATION; VERTICAL MIXING;

AEGEAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84859267348     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2012.02.003     Document Type: Article

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