Implications of Surface Chlorophyll Concentrations Along A Northern Tropical Pacific Transect

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Abstract: Sea-surface raw fluorescence measurements were used to estimate surface chlorophyll-a concentrations along a northern tropical Pacific Ocean transect. Estimates of surface chlorophyll showed significant correlations with both thermocline and chlorophyll maximum layer depths, increasing surface concentrations indicating a shallower thermocline and chlorophyll maximum layer. An increase in surface chlorophyll near the equator coincided with the boundary between the North Equatorial Current and the Equatorial Countercurrent, indicating a disruption of the thermocline by the turbulent boundary layer of the two opposing currents. Thus surface chlorophyll concentrations were found to indicate both physical and biological features of the water column.

Type of resource	text
Date created	June 10, 2003

Author	Rais, Amber

Subject	Stanford@SEA
Subject	S-187
Subject	Hopkins Marine Station
Subject	Department of Biology
Subject	Department of Earth System Science
Subject	BIOHOPK 182H
Subject	BIOHOPK 323H
Subject	EARTHSYS 323
Subject	ESS 323
Subject	Pacific Ocean transect
Subject	fluorescence
Subject	chlorophyll
Genre	Student project report

Location	https://purl.stanford.edu/hk397dr9783

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Preferred Citation: Amber Rais, 2003. Implications of Surface Chlorophyll Concentrations Along A Northern Tropical Pacific Transect . Unpublished student research paper, S-187, Stanford@SEA, Stanford Digital Repository. https://purl.stanford.edu/hk397dr9783.

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