Persistent and highly contrasting biological patterns in the southwestern sector of the Atlantic Ocean: relating local circulation to phytoplankton pigment biomass
Primary production in the Southern Ocean (SO) is believed to be mostly iron limited; despite the high macronutrient content of waters transported by the Antarctic Circumpolar Current, the SO is considered a High Nutrient Low Chlorophyll region. However, ocean color imagery shows a variable and patch...
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2011
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Online Access: | https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/25753/ https://epic.awi.de/id/eprint/25753/1/EGU2011-poster.pdf https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39050 https://hdl.handle.net/10013/epic.39050.d001 |