Phytoplankton carbon and chlorophyll distributions in the equatorial Pacific and Atlantic: A basin-scale comparative study

Journal of Marine Systems

Volumn 109-110, Issue , 2013, Pages 138-148

  Wang, Xiujun ^a,b   Murtugudde, Raghu ^a   Hackert, Eric ^a   Marañón, Emilio ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^b BEIJING NORMAL UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VIGO   (Spain)

Author keywords

C:Chl ratio; Chlorophyll; Equatorial Atlantic; Equatorial Pacific; Phytoplankton carbon biomass

Indexed keywords

BASIN SCALE; BIOLOGICAL PARAMETER; C:CHL RATIO; CARBON BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL A; CHLOROPHYLL CONCENTRATION; CHLOROPHYLL DISTRIBUTION; CHLOROPHYLL RATIO; COMPARATIVE ANALYSIS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; DATA SETS; EQUATORIAL ATLANTIC; EQUATORIAL PACIFIC; EUPHOTIC ZONE; FIELD DATA; GLOBAL SCALE; IRON-LIMITATION; MODELING STUDIES; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; PHYTOPLANKTON DYNAMICS; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL VARIATION; SUBSURFACE WATERS; SURFACE CHLOROPHYLL; UPWELLING REGION;

BIOMASS; CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; SURFACE WATERS;

PHYTOPLANKTON;

BASIN ANALYSIS; BIOMASS; CARBON; CHLOROPHYLL; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; PHYTOPLANKTON; SATELLITE DATA; SIMULATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SURFACE WATER; UPWELLING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; ATLANTIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL); PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (EQUATORIAL);

EID: 84869882856     PISSN: 09247963     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jmarsys.2012.03.004     Document Type: Article

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