Northern fur seals augment ship-derived ocean temperatures with higher temporal and spatial resolution data in the eastern Bering Sea

Deep-Sea Research Part II: Topical Studies in Oceanography

Volumn 94, Issue , 2013, Pages 257-273

  Nordstrom, Chad A ^a   Benoit Bird, Kelly J ^b   Battaile, Brian C ^a   Trites, Andrew W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRITISH COLUMBIA   (Canada)

^b OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alaska; Bio logging; Callorhinus ursinus; Data interpolating variational analysis; Eastern Bering Sea; Northern fur seal; Spatial interpolation; USA

Indexed keywords

ALASKA; BIO-LOGGING; CALLORHINUS URSINUS; EASTERN BERING SEAS; FUR SEALS; SPATIAL INTERPOLATION; USA; VARIATIONAL ANALYSIS;

ANIMALS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; INTERPOLATION;

SHIPS;

DATA ACQUISITION; DATA INTERPRETATION; DATA SET; HYDROGRAPHY; INTERPOLATION; OCEANOGRAPHY; PINNIPED; SENSOR; SHIPBORNE MEASUREMENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ALASKA; BERING SEA; PACIFIC OCEAN; UNITED STATES;

ANIMALIA; CALLORHINUS; CALLORHINUS URSINUS; VERTEBRATA;

EID: 84884207990     PISSN: 09670645     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.dsr2.2013.03.022     Document Type: Article

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