Zooplankton Patterns in Relation to Physical Processes and Behavior

Abstract

The report reviews ONR supported studies of zooplankton distributions as affected by oceanic water masses, fronts, current filaments, turbulence, and shear. Model simulations of plankton behavior and patchiness in turbulence were also conducted.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 01, 1993
Accession Number
ADA262726

Entities

People

  • Loren R. Haury

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aquatic Organisms
  • California
  • Filaments
  • Instrumentation
  • Marine Biology
  • North Pacific Ocean
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Organism Forms
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Plankton
  • Simulations
  • Topography
  • Turbulence
  • Water
  • Water Masses
  • Zooplankton

Readers

  • Computational Fluid Dynamics (CFD)
  • Marine Ecotoxicology
  • Reinforced Composite Materials