Multiple drivers of particle fluxes in the Blanes submarine canyon and southern open slope: Results of a year round experiment

Progress in Oceanography

Volumn 118, Issue , 2013, Pages 95-107

  Lopez Fernandez, Pilar ^a   Calafat, Antoni ^a   Sanchez Vidal, Anna ^a   Canals, Miquel ^a   Mar Flexas, M ^b,d   Cateura, Jordi ^b   Company, Joan B ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^c INSTITUT DE CIÈNCIES DEL MAR   (Spain)

^d CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; NEAR-BOTTOM SEDIMENT TRAP; PARTICLE FLUXES; PHYTOPLANKTON BLOOM; SUBMARINE CANYON; TEMPORAL AND SPATIAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL EVOLUTION; TOTAL MASS FLUX;

FISHERIES; SUBMARINES;

COMPUTER INTEGRATED MANUFACTURING;

AIR-SEA INTERACTION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; FLUX MEASUREMENT; ORGANIC CARBON; PARTICULATE MATTER; SEDIMENT TRAP; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; SUBMARINE CANYON; TRAWLING; WATER DEPTH;

ALGAE;

EID: 84888046237     PISSN: 00796611     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pocean.2013.07.029     Document Type: Article

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