Oceanic mesoscale turbulence drives large biogeochemical interannual variability at middle and high latitudes

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2014, Pages 2467-2474

  Lévy, Marina ^a,b   Resplandy, Laure ^c   Lengaigne, Matthieu ^a,b  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b Indian Institute of Tropical Meteorology   (India)

^c SCRIPPS RESEARCH   (United States)

Author keywords

Bloom; chaotic; fluxes; interannual; phenology; submesoscale

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC THERMODYNAMICS; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; FLUXES; PHYTOPLANKTON; TURBULENCE;

BLOOM; CHAOTIC; INTERANNUAL; PHENOLOGY; SUBMESOSCALE;

CLIMATE CHANGE;

ALGAL BLOOM; ANNUAL VARIATION; ATMOSPHERIC FORCING; BIOGEOCHEMISTRY; CHAOTIC DYNAMICS; LATITUDINAL GRADIENT; MESOSCALE MOTION; PHENOLOGY; PHYTOPLANKTON; SEASONALITY; TURBULENCE;

EID: 84897359917     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL059608     Document Type: Article

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