Journal article
WEST: A northern California study of the role of wind-driven transport in the productivity of coastal plankton communities
Deep-sea research. Part II, Topical studies in oceanography, Vol.53(25), pp.2833-2849
2006
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https://hdl.handle.net/2376/104785
Abstract
The “Wind Events and Shelf Transport” (WEST) program was an interdisciplinary study of coastal upwelling off northern California in 2000–03. WEST was comprised of modeling and field observations. The primary goal of WEST was to better describe and understand the competing influences of wind forcing on planktonic productivity in coastal waters. While increased upwelling-favorable winds lead to increased nutrient supply, they also result in reduced light exposure due to deeper surface mixed layers and increased advective loss of plankton from coastal waters. The key to understanding high levels of productivity, amidst these competing responses to wind forcing, is the temporal and spatial structure of upwelling. Temporal fluctuations and spatial patterns allow strong upwelling that favors nutrient delivery to be juxtaposed with less energetic conditions that favor stratification and plankton blooms. Observations of winds, ocean circulation, nutrients, phytoplankton and zooplankton off Bodega Bay and Point Reyes (38°N) were combined with model studies of winds, circulation and productivity. This overview of the WEST program provides an introduction to the WEST special issue of Deep-Sea Research, including the motivation for WEST, a summary of study components, an integrative synthesis of major research results to-date, and background on conditions during field studies in May–June 2001 (the upwelling period on which this special issue is focused).
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- Title
- WEST: A northern California study of the role of wind-driven transport in the productivity of coastal plankton communities
- Creators
- J.L Largier - Bodega Marine Laboratory, University of California, Davis, USAC.A Lawrence - University of California, Davis, USAM Roughan - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USAD.M Kaplan - University of California, Davis, USAE.P Dever - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USAC.E Dorman - Scripps Institution of Oceanography, University of California, San Diego, USAR.M Kudela - University of California, Santa Cruz, USAS.M Bollens - Washington State University, Vancouver, WA, USAF.P Wilkerson - Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, USAR.C Dugdale - Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, USAL.W Botsford - University of California, Davis, USAN Garfield - Romberg Tiburon Center, San Francisco State University, Tiburon, USAB Kuebel Cervantes - Oregon State University, Corvallis, OR, USAD Koračin - Desert Research Institute, University of Nevada, Reno, USA
- Publication Details
- Deep-sea research. Part II, Topical studies in oceanography, Vol.53(25), pp.2833-2849
- Academic Unit
- Environment, School of the (CAS)
- Publisher
- Elsevier Ltd
- Identifiers
- 99900547068801842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Journal article