Summer phytoplankton production and transport along the shelf

• Main Authors: Dennis A, T John J. Goering, John J. Walsh, C. Peter Mcroy, Lawrence K. Coachman, Terry E. Whitledgell
• Other Authors: The Pennsylvania State University CiteSeerX Archives
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 1989
• Subjects: Anadyr; Anadyr’; Bering Sea; Bering Shelf; Chukchi Sea; Anadyr'; Chukchi
• Online Access: http://citeseerx.ist.psu.edu/viewdoc/summary?doi=10.1.1.639.193; http://yyy.rsmas.miami.edu/groups/biogeochem/Publications/3_Hansell.pdf

Abstract--A general model is presented for the production and fate of phytoplankton during summer in two regions over the continental shelf of the Bering Sea. We propose that both regions of productivity are supported by nutrients transported into the area with the Bering Slope Current and that the...