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Le Quéré et al. 2002

Le Quéré, C., Bopp, L. and Tegen, I. (2002). Antarctic circumpolar wave impact on marine biology: A natural laboratory for climate change study. Geophysical Research Letters 29: doi: 10.1029/2001GL014585. issn: 0094-8276.

We use the observed variations in ocean surface chlorophyll, temperature and height caused by the Antarctic Circumpolar Wave (ACW) as a natural laboratory to determine how marine biology responds to changes in ocean stratification in the Southern Ocean. Interannual variations of surface chlorophyll (¿5%) observed by SeaWiFS satellite during 1997--2001 vary in phase over the entire Southern Ocean in spite of large east-west dipoles in ocean dynamics. We suggest that this behavior is due to the regional predominance of light versus nutrient limitation over the most productive regions of the Southern Ocean.

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Keywords
Global Change, Biogeochemical processes, Global Change, Remote sensing, Oceanography, Physical, Upper ocean processes, Oceanography, Biological and Chemical, Ecosystems, structure and dynamics, Global Change, Oceans

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Geophysical Research Letters
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