Plankton Production Biology

Abstract

I continue to investigate geographic and seasonal distributions of hydrography and nutrients in respect to plankton production in the central and eastern Arabian Sea including the continental shelf of India west coast. This year I have added the central Bay of Bengal. Occasionally I comment on general oceanographic or ecological principles. The objectives during the reporting period continued to be old and new oceanographic issues about the central and eastern Arabian Sea including the Indian shelf, and now the central Bay of Bengal. Largely, cost-efficient mining of old and new oceanographic data is used, some of which are not yet in data centers. The principal tools are vertical property plots for the upper 0.5 km of the water column, temperature-salinity diagrams, and regression analysis. The work is done with colleagues at India s National Institute of Oceanography in Dona Paula (Goa). I enjoy their trust, so observations from inside the Indian EEZ are available. As always, the accuracy of the data is of concern.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2013
Accession Number
ADA599065

Entities

People

  • Karl Banse

Organizations

  • University of Washington

Tags

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aquatic Organisms
  • Arabian Sea
  • Cell Division
  • Chemistry
  • Data Centers
  • Euphotic Zones
  • Indian Ocean
  • Layers
  • Measurement
  • Observatories
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Physics Laboratories
  • Phytoplankton
  • Plankton
  • Production
  • Regions

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Economics
  • Oceanography.
  • Research Science/Academic Research