Biological response to the 1997-98 and 2009-10 El Nio events in the equatorial Pacific Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2012, Pages

  Gierach, Michelle M ^a   Lee, Tong ^a   Turk, Daniela ^b,c   McPhaden, Michael J ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b DALHOUSIE UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c International Research Institute for Climate and Society   (United States)

^d NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVECTION; CHLOROPHYLL;

BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; CHLOROPHYLL A; DOMINANT PROCESS; EASTERN EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EASTERN PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC OCEAN; HORIZONTAL ADVECTION; MECHANISTIC DIFFERENCES; PATHWAY ANALYSIS; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; PHYSICAL PROCESS; REANALYSIS; SATELLITE DATA; VERTICAL ADVECTION; WATER MASS; WESTERLY WINDS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ADVECTION; CHLOROPHYLL A; EL NINO; SATELLITE DATA; WATER MASS; WESTERLY;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84861411150     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2012GL051103     Document Type: Article

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