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Late Autumn Distribution and Seasonality of Chlorophyll-a at the Shelf-Break/Slope Region of the Armorican and Celtic Shelf

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

Carlos Garcia-Soto  and
Robin D. Pingree
Carlos Garcia-Soto
Affiliation:
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB. University of the Basque Country, Department of Plant Biology and Ecology, Laboratory of Ecology, Apartado 644, 48080 Bilbao, Spain
Robin D. Pingree
Affiliation:
Plymouth Marine Laboratory, Citadel Hill, Plymouth PL1 2PB.
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Simultaneous satellite and ship measurements have characterized the structure of temperature and nitrate concentration of the Shelf-Break Front of the Armorican and Celtic Sea in late autumn (November) 1985. A chlorophyll-a distribution associated with this feature is analysed in relation to the shelf-break frontal genesis and properties, and in relation to the seasonality of in situ concentrations of chlorophyll-a at the shelf-break/slope region, adjacent shelf and adjacent ocean near ~ 47·5°N.

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Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 78 , Issue 1 , February 1998 , pp. 17 - 33
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Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1998

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