Photo-Ecological Investigations in the Arabian Sea (U.S. JGOFS)

小行星9311312 北方阿拉伯海的浮游植物生物量和生产的季风大气强迫驱动表现出定期的，可预测的振荡。 在本项目中，主要研究者将使用最先进的高效液相色谱法（HLPC）描述阿拉伯海过程研究（ASPS）期间浮游植物色素分布的特征。 有四个主要的研究目标。 将使用季节和空间色素数据（1）记录浮游植物生物量（叶绿素a）和色素的物种组成及其他变量，（4）使用该模型估计依赖时间和深度的初级生产率。 这项工作将补充其他澳大利亚和太平洋岛屿方案调查人员通过水柱取样和卫星图像研究浮游植物动态的努力。

9311312 BIDIGARE The northern Arabian Sea exhibits regular, predictable oscillations in phytoplankton biomass and production driven by monsoonal atmospheric forcing. In this project, the principal investigator will characterize phytoplankton pigment distributions during the Arabian Sea Process Study (ASPS) using state-of-the-art high- performance liquid chromatography (HLPC) methods. There are four major research objectives. Seasonal and spatial pigment data will be used (1) to document phytoplankton biomass (as chlorophyll-a) and species composition of pigments and other variables and (4) use the model to estimate time-and-depth-dependent rates of primary production. This work will complement the efforts of other ASPS investigators studying phytoplankton dynamics both by water column sampling and via satellite imagery.