Estimates of phytoplankton class-specific and total primary production in the Mediterranean Sea from satellite ocean color observations

Global Biogeochemical Cycles

Volumn 26, Issue 2, 2012, Pages

  Uitz, Julia ^a,b,c   Stramski, Dariusz ^a   Gentili, Bernard ^b,c   D'Ortenzio, Fabrizio ^b,c   Claustre, Hervé ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIO-OPTICAL MODELS; CONVENTIONAL APPROACH; ECOLOGICAL REGIMES; MEDITERRANEAN BASIN; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; OCEAN COLOR; OCEAN COLOR CHLOROPHYLL ALGORITHMS; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; SATELLITE OCEAN COLOR; SEA-VIEWING WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW SENSORS; SEASONAL CYCLE; SPRING BLOOMS; SURFACE CHLOROPHYLL;

CHLOROPHYLL; COLOR; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ESTIMATION;

ALGORITHM; CHLOROPHYLL A; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); MICROPLANKTON; NANOPLANKTON; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; OCEAN COLOR; PHYTOPLANKTON; PICOPLANKTON; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SATELLITE SENSOR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

EID: 84861679957     PISSN: 08866236     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GB004055     Document Type: Article

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