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A marginal front in Lyme Bay

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 May 2009

R. D. Pingree ,
G. T. Mardell  and
Linda Maddock
R. D. Pingree
Affiliation:
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey, GU UB
G. T. Mardell
Affiliation:
Institute of Oceanographic Sciences, Wormley, Godalming, Surrey, GU UB
Linda Maddock
Affiliation:
The Laboratory, Marine Biological Association, Citadel Hill, Plymouth, PL PB
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A frontal region is predicted in Lyme Bay from a numerical model. A crescent-shaped feature is occasionally identified in the coastal-zone colour scanner imagery for this region. Measurements at sea confirm the development of a frontal zone which can show associated increases in levels of chlorophyll a. The surface distributions of inorganic nutrients indicate that nutrients and light levels are factors controlling the observed variations of surface phytoplankton.

Type
Research Article
Information
Journal of the Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom , Volume 63 , Issue 1 , February 1983 , pp. 9 - 15
Copyright
Copyright © Marine Biological Association of the United Kingdom 1983

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