Plankton Patch Feasibility Experiments

Abstract

The long term goal is to increase our understanding of the biological - biological, physical - biological and chemical - biological interactions that control the initiation, maintenance and dissipation of plankton patches. This goal can most readily be achieved by directly measuring processes thought to control plankton patch dynamics, experimentally testing their importance, incorporating those processes into mechanistic plankton dynamics models, and then testing the models in the ocean.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA627832

Entities

People

  • Percy L. Donaghay

Organizations

  • University of Rhode Island

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Absorption
  • Aquatic Organisms
  • Calibration
  • Communication Systems
  • Data Links
  • Data Sets
  • Detectors
  • Dynamics
  • Electronic Mail
  • High Resolution
  • Marine Biology
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Phytoplankton
  • Plankton
  • Rhode Island
  • Teamwork

Fields of Study

  • Biology
  • Mathematics
  • Physics

Readers

  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Structural Health Monitoring of Composite Structures.