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Climate-induced Wind Upwelling Could Further Acidify Chesapeake Bay
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Wind-driven lateral upwelling is a well-known physical phenomenon in estuaries. Along-channel winds drive cross-channel transports via lateral Ekman ...
Hypoxic Area off Pacific Northwest Coast has Grown Since 1950s
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In 2021 alone, winds favoring upwelling were so strong and sustained that the resulting hypoxia covered 56% or over half of the region’s continental ...
Upwelling Controls HAB Movement toward Pacific NW Coast
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In the Pacific Northwest (PNW), seasonal upwelling, or the lack thereof, can determine the movement of plankton and larvae offshore or inshore. The ...
Lake Erie Hypoxia Forecast - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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Welcome to the new home of the Lake Erie Hypoxia Forecast (previously an experimental product at NOAA/GLERL). The 2024 hypoxic upwelling forecast ...
Upwelling and Coastal Land Use Patterns on the Development of HAB ...
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Monterey Bay in central California that represents an open embayment strongly affected by upwelling, and where extensive agricultural use of coastal ...
Primary Cause of Dead Zones is Biological on Pacific Northwest ...
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The coastal ocean of Washington and Oregon is an eastern boundary current upwelling region that experiences a seasonal decline in oxygen on the ...
Seasonal Cross-Shelf Flow Structure, Upwelling Relaxation, and the ...
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The resulting flow structure develops an organized pattern midway through the upwelling season. In particular, under upwelling-favorable conditions an ...
Linking Chlorophyll Concentration and Wind Patterns in the California ...
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Upwelling typically occurs during the summer into the fall and downwelling occurs in winter. Despite the weak upwelling-favorable winds characteristic ...
2024 Lake Erie Hypoxia Forecast Ends First Fully Functional Season
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Over the 2024 season, eleven hypoxic upwelling alerts were issued for the central Ohio coast between July 2 and September 26, with additional ...
The Columbia River Plume and Harmful Algal Blooms in the Pacific ...
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Recent project findings incorporate upwelling into the model, showing how the strength of upwelling influences the transport direction of ...
Study Reviews Causes of Acidification in Large Estuaries
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The Salish Sea is a fjord-type, semi-enclosed large estuarine system located in the Pacific Northwest. It is an example of a glacially carved inland ...
Phosphorus cycling in the red tide incubator region of Monterey Bay in ...
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Upwelling led to a 10-fold increase in dissolved inorganic (DIP) in surface waters, reaching ?0.5 ?mol L?1. This DIP was drawn down rapidly as upwelli ...
Risks of ocean acidification in the California Current food web and ...
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Here, we describe the effects of ocean acidification on an upwelling system that already experiences inherently low pH conditions, the California ...
Causality of an extreme harmful algal bloom in Monterey Bay, California ...
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An ecologically and economically disruptive harmful algal bloom (HAB) affected much of the northeast Pacific margin in 2015, during a prolonged ...
Oceanic Dead Zones Emerge as Threats to Coastal Waters
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Likewise, wind-induced upwelling related to atmospheric warming is bringing hypoxic waters to nearshore areas. As a result, areas of continental ...
Southwest Florida Intensification Forecast - NCCOS Coastal Science Website
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During the early bloom period (typically each fall), Karenia brevis cells—which persist in the bottom waters offshore—can be moved onshore to the ...
Seasonal Forecasting of Karenia brevis Red Tide Blooms in the Eastern ...
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Upwelling is a necessary condition for K. brevis HABs along the west Florida coastline and elsewhere, but too much upwelling may obviate such ...
2017-2018 Florida Red Tide Determined by Ocean Circulation
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Cells of Karenia brevis, the Florida red tide, were transported along the bottom by upwelling circulation to the Florida shoreline “epicenter” between ...
West Florida Shelf and Dry Tortugas Impact Gulf of Mexico Loop Current
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Loop Current anchoring stimulates upwelling of nutrient-laden deeper water into the WFS and facilitates ecologically significant activities such as ...
Coastal Ocean Acidification - NCCOS - National Centers for Coastal ...
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Coastal Ocean Acidification Ocean acidification is driven predominantly by ocean uptake of atmospheric carbon dioxide (CO2), resulting in global-scale ...