Optical backscattering is correlated with phytoplankton carbon across the Atlantic Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 1154-1158

  Martinez Vicente, V ^a   Dall'Olmo, G ^a   Tarran, G ^a   Boss, E ^b   Sathyendranath, S ^a  

^a PLYMOUTH MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

Author keywords

Atlantic Ocean; backscattering; phytoplankton carbon

Indexed keywords

ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUTONOMOUS PLATFORMS; BACKSCATTERING COEFFICIENTS; CARBON CONCENTRATIONS; CHLOROPHYLL-A CONCENTRATION; IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL BACKSCATTERING; REMOTE SENSING OF OCEAN;

BACKSCATTERING; CARBON;

PHYTOPLANKTON;

BIOMASS; CARBON CYCLE; CELL ORGANELLE; DATA SET; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL PROPERTY; PARTICULATE ORGANIC CARBON; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOTE SENSING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 84876939274     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/grl.50252     Document Type: Article

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