Ocean glider observations of iceberg-enhanced biological production in the northwestern Weddell Sea

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 42, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 459-465

  Biddle, Louise C ^a   Kaiser, Jan ^a   Heywood, Karen J ^a   Thompson, Andrew F ^b   Jenkins, Adrian ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EAST ANGLIA   (United Kingdom)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c BRITISH ANTARCTIC SURVEY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Antarctic; Gliders; Iceberg; Production

Indexed keywords

GLIDERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PRODUCTION;

ANTARCTIC; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTIVITY; HIGH RESOLUTION OBSERVATIONS; ICEBERG; NET COMMUNITY PRODUCTIONS; OXYGEN CONCENTRATIONS; SATELLITE OBSERVATIONS;

SEA ICE;

ADVECTION; BIOLOGICAL PRODUCTION; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); CONTINENTAL SLOPE; ICEBERG; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; OXYGEN; TRACE ELEMENT; WATER CHEMISTRY;

ANTARCTICA; SOUTHERN OCEAN; WEDDELL SEA;

EID: 84923612526     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL062850     Document Type: Article

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