On the seasonal and interannual migrations of the transition zone chlorophyll front

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 31, Issue 17, 2004, Pages

  Bograd, Steven J ^a   Foley, David G ^b   Schwing, Franklin B ^a   Wilson, Cara ^a   Laurs, R Michael ^a   Polovina, Jeffrey J ^c   Howell, Evan A ^c   Brainard, Russell E ^c  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c PACIFIC ISLANDS FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

4215 Oceanography: General: Climate and interannual variability (3309); 4223 Oceanography: General: Descriptive and regional oceanography; 4227 Oceanography: General: Diurnal, seasonal, and annual cycles; 4528 Oceanography: Physical: Fronts and jets; 4899 Oceanography: Biological and chemical: General of miscellaneous

Indexed keywords

CHLOROPHYLL; CLIMATE CHANGE; COLOR; DATA ACQUISITION; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIND; ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE;

PREDATORS; TRANSITION ZONE CHOLORPHYLL FRONT (TZCF);

OCEAN CURRENTS; CHLOROPHYLL;

CHLOROPHYLL; OCEAN COLOR; OCEANOGRAPHY; SURFACE WIND; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

OCEANIC REGIONS; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTH); WORLD;

ENHANCED SURFACE; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; INTERANNUAL VARIATION; NORTH PACIFIC OCEAN; SURFACE CHLOROPHYLL; SURFACE TEMPERATURES; TEMPERATURE DATA;

EID: 9744254431     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004GL020637     Document Type: Article

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