Instrumented elephant seals reveal the seasonality in chlorophyll and light-mixing regime in the iron-fertilized Southern Ocean

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 40, Issue 24, 2013, Pages 6368-6372

  Blain, Stéphane ^a,b   Renaut, Sophie ^a,b   Xing, Xiaogang ^b,c   Claustre, Hervé ^b,c   Guinet, Christophe ^b  

^a Laboratoire d Océanographie Microbienne   (France)

^b CNRS   (France)

^c LABORATOIRE D OCÉANOGRAPHIE DE VILLEFRANCHE   (France)

Author keywords

chlorophyll; climatology; iron fertilization; Southern Ocean

Indexed keywords

IN-SITU MEASUREMENT; IRON FERTILIZATION; IRON-LIMITATION; LARGE DATASETS; MAJOR FACTORS; NATURAL IRON; SILICIC ACIDS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATOLOGY; MAMMALS; MIXING;

IRON;

ALGAL BLOOM; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATOLOGY; FLUORESCENCE; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LIGHT SCATTERING; PHYTOPLANKTON; PINNIPED; SALINITY; SEASONALITY; SENSOR; SILICIC ACID; STRATIFICATION;

FRENCH SOUTHERN TERRITORIES; KERGUELEN ISLANDS; SOUTHERN OCEAN;

MIROUNGA;

EID: 84890359880     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2013GL058065     Document Type: Article

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