Wintertime controls on summer stratification and productivity at the western Antarctic Peninsula

Limnology and Oceanography

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1035-1047

  Venables, Hugh J ^a   Clarke, Andrew ^a   Meredith, Michael P ^a  

^a BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CLIMATE CHANGE; ICE COVER; LIGHT AVAILABILITY; NUTRIENT AVAILABILITY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEA ICE; STRATIFICATION; SUMMER; VERTICAL MIXING; WATER COLUMN;

ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; MARGUERITE BAY; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EID: 84874911593     PISSN: 00243590     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4319/lo.2013.58.3.1035     Document Type: Article

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