Monthly mean chlorophyll-a concentration (Chl-a; columns) for different study subareas during the period 1998-2011 and climatologies (black lines). Refer to Figure 2 for subareas location and notation.

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Krug L.A, K.M. Silvano, A.B.Barbosa, R. B. Domingues, H. M. Galvão, J. Luís, T. Platt, P.Relvas and S. Sathyendranath, 2012. Connections between upwelling patterns and phytoplankton variability under different coastal regimes in SW Iberia Peninsula. Proceedings of Ocean Optics XXI Conference, Glasgow, Scotland, 8 – 12 October, 11 p.

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Oct 2012

Lilian A. Krug
Ana Branco Barbosa
Rita B Domingues
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Shubha Sathyendranath

The region off southwestern Iberia (NE Atlantic) encompasses a wide variety of oceanographic regimes, including differently (geographic) oriented coastal areas impacted by upwelling, riverine inputs and submarine groundwater discharge, submarine canyons and seamounts, and open ocean waters, thereby potentially promoting zone-specific phytoplankton...