Indian Ocean Biogeochemical Processes and Ecological Variability.

Published by the American Geophysical Union as part of the Geophysical Monograph Series. Indian Ocean Biogeochemical Processes and Ecological Variability provides a synthesis of current knowledge on Indian Ocean biogeochemistry and ecology and an introduction to new concepts and topical paradigm cha...

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Main Author: Wiggert, Jerry D.
Other Authors: Hood, Raleigh R., Naqvi, S. Wajih A., Brink, Kenneth H., Smith, Sharon L.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Hoboken : Wiley, 2013
Series:Geophysical monograph ; 185.
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Local Note:ProQuest Ebook Central
Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title Page; Contents; Preface; Introduction to Indian Ocean Biogeochemical Processes and Ecological Variability: Current Understanding and Emerging Perspective; Biophysical Processes in the Indian Ocean; What Drives the Biological Productivity of the Northern Indian Ocean?; Monsoons, Islands, and Eddies: Their Effects on Phytoplankton in the Indian Ocean; Impact of Physical Processes on Chlorophyll Distribution in the Bay of Bengal; Wintertime Convection and Ventilation of the Upper Pycnocline in the Northernmost Arabian Sea
  • Grazing Processes and Secondary Production in the Arabian Sea: A Simple Food Web Synthesis With Measurement ConstraintsPhysical and Biogeochemical Controls of the Phytoplankton Seasonal Cycle in the Indian Ocean: A Modeling Study; Dinitrogen Fixation in the Indian Ocean; Nitrous Oxide in the Indian Ocean; Dissolved Organic Carbon in the Carbon Cycle of the Indian Ocean; Challenges for Present and Future Estimates of Anthropogenic Carbon in the Indian Ocean; Net Community Production in the Northern Indian Ocean
  • Unusual Blooms of the Green Noctiluca miliaris (Dinophyceae) in the Arabian SeaDuring the Winter MonsoonMonsoonal and ENSO Impacts on Particle Fluxes and the Biological Pump in the Indian Ocean; Basin-Wide Modification of Dynamical and Biogeochemical Processes by the Positive Phaseof the Indian Ocean Dipole During the SeaWiFS Era; Indian Ocean Research: Opportunities and Challenges; Index