Modeling environmental controls on the transport and fate of early life stages of Antarctic krill (Euphausia superba) on the western Antarctic Peninsula continental shelf

Deep-Sea Research Part I: Oceanographic Research Papers

Volumn 82, Issue , 2013, Pages 17-31

  Piñones, Andrea ^a,c   Hofmann, Eileen E ^a   Daly, Kendra L ^b   Dinniman, Michael S ^a   Klinck, John M ^a  

^a OLD DOMINION UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SOUTH FLORIDA   (United States)

^c YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Antarctic krill; Climate change; Southern Ocean; Western Antarctic Peninsula

Indexed keywords

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC KRILL; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LAGRANGIAN PARTICLE TRACKING; REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM; SOUTHERN OCEAN; TEMPERATURE-DEPENDENT MODELING; WESTERN ANTARCTIC PENINSULA;

ADVECTION; CHARGE DENSITY WAVES; CLIMATE CHANGE; OCEAN CURRENTS; SEA ICE;

RESIDENCE TIME DISTRIBUTION;

CLIMATE CHANGE; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CRUSTACEAN; EMBRYO; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONS; LARVA; LIFE CYCLE; MASS TRANSPORT; OCEANIC GENERAL CIRCULATION MODEL; ONE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; SEA ICE; SPAWNING; WIND VELOCITY;

ANTARCTIC CIRCUMPOLAR CURRENT; ANTARCTIC PENINSULA; ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEST ANTARCTICA;

EUPHAUSIA SUPERBA; EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 84883197741     PISSN: 09670637     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr.2013.08.001     Document Type: Article

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