The oceanography and ecology of the Ross Sea

WO Smith Jr, DG Ainley, KR Arrigo… - Annual review of …, 2014 - annualreviews.org
The continental shelf of the Ross Sea exhibits substantial variations in physical forcing, ice
cover, and biological processes on a variety of time and space scales. Its circulation is …

Climate change and Southern Ocean ecosystems I: how changes in physical habitats directly affect marine biota

…, MJ Riddle, SR Rintoul, WO Smith Jr… - Global change …, 2014 - Wiley Online Library
Antarctic and Southern Ocean ( ASO ) marine ecosystems have been changing for at least
the last 30 years, including in response to increasing ocean temperatures and changes in the …

Temperature effects on export production in the open ocean

EA Laws, PG Falkowski, WO Smith Jr… - Global …, 2000 - Wiley Online Library
… Asper, VL, and WO Smith, Particle fluxes during austral spring and summer in the
southern … Smith, WO, Jr., Primary productivity and new production in the Northeast Water (Greenland) …

Phytoplankton bloom produced by a receding ice edge in the Ross Sea: spatial coherence with the density field

WO Smith, DM Nelson - Science, 1985 - science.org
Measurements of chlorophyll, particulate carbon, and biogenic silica concentrations near a
receding ice edge off the coast of Victoria Land, Antarctica, indicated the presence of a dense …

Trophic interactions within the Ross Sea continental shelf ecosystem

WO Smith Jr, DG Ainley… - … Transactions of the …, 2007 - royalsocietypublishing.org
… Asper VA& Smith WO The distribution of particulate organic carbon and its dynamics in
the southern Ross Sea. Biogeochemistry of the Ross Sea , DiTullio GR& Dunbar RB . 2003pp. …

Importance of ice edge phytoplankton production in the Southern Ocean

WO Smith, DM Nelson - BioScience, 1986 - JSTOR
B efore the mid-1970s, biological oceanographers considered the Southern Ocean a region
characterized by high primary pro-ductivity during the short austral summer, this large, …

Photosynthetic efficiency and phytochrome photoequilibria determination using spectral data

JC Sager, WO Smith, JL Edwards… - Transactions of the …, 1988 - elibrary.asabe.org
SPECTRAL data provides the information to quantify the photosynthetic and morphogenic
responses of plants to a specific radiation environment. The mathematical products of spectral …

Packing of homogeneous spheres

WO Smith, PD Foote, PF Busang - Physical Review, 1929 - APS
Although the actual packing of shot is of a very irregular and distorted pattern, for certain
statistical purposes the arrangement may be treated as a mixture of closehexagonal and simple-…

The seasonal cycle of phytoplankton biomass and primary productivity in the Ross Sea, Antarctica

WO Smith Jr, J Marra, MR Hiscock, RT Barber - Deep Sea Research Part II …, 2000 - Elsevier
Phytoplankton standing stocks and carbon assimilation were measured during four cruises
to the southern Ross Sea, Antarctica during 1996 and 1997 in order to assess the details of …

CO2 sensitivity of Southern Ocean phytoplankton

…, Y Li, S Trimborn, B Rost, WO Smith… - Geophysical …, 2008 - Wiley Online Library
The Southern Ocean exerts a strong impact on marine biogeochemical cycles and global air‐sea
CO 2 fluxes. Over the coming century, large increases in surface ocean CO 2 levels, …