Seasonal Planktonic Bioluminescence in the Southern California Bight

Abstract

Very little is known about the seasonality and sources of planktonic bioluminescence in coastal waters along most continents as are the underlying environmental conditions basic to understanding and prediction. There is little doubt that to adequately understand and predict planktonic bioluminescence in any ocean, measurements must be conducted on a continual basis to account for the interannual variability. The long term goal of this project was to understand the interannual dynamics of coastal and open ocean bioluminescence with particular reference to the seasonality of planktonic bioluminescence.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 1997
Accession Number
ADA629292

Entities

People

  • David Lapota

Organizations

  • Naval Information Warfare Systems Command

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Aquatic Organisms
  • Bioluminescence
  • California
  • Chlorophylls
  • Continents
  • Marine Biology
  • Naval Warfare
  • North Pacific Ocean
  • Oceanography
  • Oceans
  • Pacific Ocean
  • Rainfall
  • Underwater Acoustics
  • Water

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Chemistry (specifically Chemical Fluorescence)
  • Ocean-Atmosphere Mesoscale Modeling, Data Assimilation, and Flux Boundary Layers
  • Theoretical Analysis.