Temporal variation of dissolved methane in a subtropical mesoscale eddy during a phytoplankton bloom in the southwest Pacific Ocean

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 116, Issue , 2013, Pages 193-206

  Weller, D I ^a,b   Law, C S ^a   Marriner, A ^a   Nodder, S D ^a   Chang, F H ^a   Stephens, J A ^c   Wilhelm, S W ^d   Boyd, P W ^b,e   Sutton, P J H ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PLYMOUTH   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE; METHANE CONCENTRATIONS; METHANE PRODUCTION; PARTICLE RECYCLING; PHAEOCYSTIS GLOBOSA; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; PHYTOPLANKTON SPECIES; SURFACE MIXED LAYERS;

METHANATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYTOPLANKTON;

METHANE;

ALGAL BLOOM; CYANOBACTERIUM; DIATOM; DIMETHYLSULFONIOPROPIONATE; GRAZING; MESOSCALE EDDY; METHANE; MIXED LAYER; ORGANIC CARBON; PHYTOPLANKTON; RECYCLING; SUCCESSION; SUPERSATURATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (SOUTHWEST);

ALGAE; ASTERIONELLOPSIS GLACIALIS; BACILLARIOPHYTA; PHAEOCYSTIS GLOBOSA; SYNECHOCOCCUS; SYNECHOCOCCUS ELONGATUS PCC 6301; SYNECHOCOCCUS SP.;

EID: 84882929898     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.07.008     Document Type: Article

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