Impact of eddies on surface chlorophyll in the South Indian Ocean

Journal of Geophysical Research: Oceans

Volumn 119, Issue 11, 2014, Pages 8061-8077

  Dufois, François ^a   Hardman Mountford, Nick J ^a   Greenwood, Jim ^a   Richardson, Anthony J ^a,b   Feng, Ming ^a   Herbette, Steven ^c,d   Matear, Richard ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

^b UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

^d UNIVERSITÉ DE BRETAGNE OCCIDENTALE   (France)

Author keywords

chlorophyll; convective mixing; Eddies; eddy induced Ekman pumping; self organizing map

Indexed keywords

ANTICYCLONE; ARGO; BIOMASS; CHLOROPHYLL; EDDY; EKMAN LAYER; MIXED LAYER; PHYTOPLANKTON; SATELLITE DATA; UPWELLING;

AUSTRALIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN (SOUTH); WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 84915751055     PISSN: 21699275     EISSN: 21699291     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014JC010164     Document Type: Article

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