Summertime primary production in northwest South China Sea: Interaction of coastal eddy, upwelling and biological processes

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 110-121

  Song, Xingyu ^a,b   Lai, Zhigang ^c,e   Ji, Rubao ^d,g   Chen, Changsheng ^e,g   Zhang, Jianlin ^a   Huang, Liangmin ^a,b   Yin, Jianqiang ^a   Wang, Youshao ^b   Lian, Shumin ^b   Zhu, Xuemin ^f  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY AND GEOPHYSICS   (China)

^b State Key Laboratory of Oceanography in the Tropics   (China)

^c SUN YAT SEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

^d WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF MASSACHUSETTS DARTMOUTH   (United States)

^f National Marine Environmental Forecasting Center of China   (China)

^g SHANGHAI OCEAN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Chlorophyll a; Modeling; Northwest South China Sea; Primary production; Remote sensing; Upwelling

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; COASTAL CURRENT; CYCLONE; EDDY; GROWTH RATE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; PRIMARY PRODUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; STRAIT; SUMMER; TOPOGRAPHIC EFFECT; UPWELLING;

CHINA; HAINAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; QIONGZHOU STRAIT; SOUTH CHINA SEA;

EID: 84867895310     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2012.07.016     Document Type: Article

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