Factors controlling interannual variability of vertical organic matter export and phytoplankton bloom dynamics-a numerical case-study for the NW Mediterranean Sea

Biogeosciences

Volumn 9, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 4233-4245

  Bernardello, R ^a,b   Cardoso, J G ^a,c   Bahamon, N ^a   Donis, D ^a,d   Marinov, I ^b   Cruzado, A ^e  

^a CENTRE D ESTUDIS AVANÇATS DE BLANES CEAB CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^c Information Management Department   (Mexico)

^d MAX PLANCK INSTITUTE FOR MARINE MICROBIOLOGY   (Germany)

^e Oceans Catalonia International SL   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL VARIATION; BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; CORRELATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; LATITUDE; NUMERICAL METHOD; ORGANIC MATTER; PHYTOPLANKTON; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SIMULATION; TURBULENT MIXING; VARIANCE ANALYSIS; WIND-DRIVEN CIRCULATION;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (NORTH); MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ALGAE;

EID: 84868661802     PISSN: 17264170     EISSN: 17264189     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/bg-9-4233-2012     Document Type: Article

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