Can Asian dust trigger phytoplankton blooms in the oligotrophic northern South China Sea?

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 39, Issue 5, 2012, Pages

  Wang, Sheng Hsiang ^a,b   Hsu, N Christina ^b   Tsay, Si Chee ^b   Lin, Neng Huei ^a   Sayer, Andrew M ^b,c   Huang, Shih Jen ^d   Lau, William K M ^b  

^a NATIONAL CENTRAL UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^d NATIONAL TAIWAN OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BLOOMS (METAL); CHLOROPHYLL; PHYTOPLANKTON;

ASIAN DUST; BACKGROUND VALUE; BIOLOGICAL RESPONSE; CHLOROPHYLL A; DUST DEPOSITION; DUST EVENT; DUST TRANSPORT; NORTHERN SOUTH CHINA SEA; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; PHYTOPLANKTON GROWTH; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE SENSORS; SEAWIFS;

DUST;

AEROSOL; ALGAL BLOOM; ATMOSPHERIC DEPOSITION; ATMOSPHERIC TRANSPORT; BIOAVAILABILITY; CHLOROPHYLL A; DUST; GROWTH RATE; IRON; MARINE ATMOSPHERE; MODIS; OLIGOTROPHIC ENVIRONMENT; PHYTOPLANKTON; SATELLITE DATA; SEAWIFS; SENSOR;

PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84863381810     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2011GL050415     Document Type: Article

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