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SUBMITTER: Chang CJ
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6443672 | biostudies-literature | 2019 Apr
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Chang Chiung-Wen June CJ Hsu Huang-Hsiung HH Cheah Wee W Tseng Wan-Ling WL Jiang Li-Chiang LC
Scientific reports 20190401 1
In addition to monsoon-driven rainfall, the Maritime Continent (MC) is subject to heavy precipitation caused by the Madden-Julian Oscillation (MJO), a tropical convection-coupled circulation that propagates eastward from the Indian to the Pacific Ocean. This study shows that riverine runoff from MJO-driven rainfall in the western MC significantly enhances phytoplankton biomass not only in the coastal regions but as far as the nutrient-poor Banda Sea, located 1,000 km downstream of the riverine s ...[more]