Sixty Years of Sverdrup: A Retrospective of Progress in the Study of Phytoplankton Blooms

Sixty Years of Sverdrup: A Retrospective of Progress in the Study of Phytoplankton Blooms

One of the most dramatic large-scale features in the ocean is the seasonal greening of the North Atlantic in spring and summer due to the accumulation of phytoplankton biomass in the surface layer. In 1953, Harald Ulrik Sverdrup hypothesized a now canonical mechanism for the development and timing o...

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Main Authors: Alexis D. Fischer, Emily A. Moberg, Harriet Alexander, Emily F. Brownlee, Kristen R. Hunter-Cevera, Kathleen J. Pitz, Sarah Z. Rosengard, Heidi M. Sosik
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2014-03-01
Series:Oceanography
Subjects:
phytoplankton bloom
Sverdrup
Critical Depth Hypothesis
bloom dynamics
bloom initiation
Online Access:http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/27-1_fischer.pdf

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