The state of the California current, 1996-1997: Mixed signals from the tropics

California Cooperative Oceanic Fisheries Investigations Reports

Volumn 38, Issue , 1997, Pages 22-47

  Schwing, Franklin B ^a   Murphree, Tom ^b   Mantyla, Arnold W ^c   Hayward, Thomas L ^c   Mascarenas Jr , Affonso S ^d   Cummings, Sherry L ^c   Sakuma, Keith M ^a   Larios Castillo, Sergio I ^d   Chavez, Francisco P ^e   Baltz, Kenneth ^a   Ainley, David G ^f  

^a NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^b NAVAL POSTGRADUATE SCHOOL   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d UNIVERSIDAD AUTÓNOMA DE BAJA CALIFORNIA   (Mexico)

^e MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^f H T HARVEY AND ASSOCIATES   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

EID: 0347799659     PISSN: 05753317     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Adams, P. B. 1995. Progress in rockfish recruitment studies. NMFS, SWFSC, Admin. Rep., Tiburon, T-95-01, 51 pp.
2. Ainley, D. G. 1976. The occurrence of seabirds in the coastal region of California. West. Birds 7:33-68.
3. Ainley, D. G., R. R. Veit, S. G. Allen, L. B. Spear, and P. Pyle. 1995. Variations in seabird numbers in the California Current, 1986-1994. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Rep. 36:72-77.
4. Bakun, A. 1973. Coastal upwelling indices, west coast of North America, 1946-71. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Rep., NMFS SSRF-671, 103 pp.
5. Barnston, A., ed. 1997. Experimental long-lead forecast bulletin 6, March 1997. Climate Prediction Center, National Centers for Environmental Prediction, National Weather Service, Washington, D.C.
6. Briggs, K. T., W. B. Tyler, D. B. Lewis, and D. R. Carlson. 1987. Bird communities at sea off California: 1975-1983. Studies Avian. Biol. No. 11.
7. Chavez, F. P., K. R. Buck, and R. T. Barber. 1990. Phytoplankton taxa in relation to primary production in the equatorial Pacific. Deep-Sea Res. 37:1733-1752.
8. Chelton, D. B., A. W. Bratkovich, R. L. Bernstein, and P. M. Kosro. 1988. Poleward flow off central California during spring and summer of 1981 and 1984. J. Geophys. Res. 93:10,604-10,620.
9. Dorman, C. E., and C. D. Winant. 1995. Buoy observations of the atmosphere along the west coast of the United States, 1981-1990. J. Geophys. Res. 100:16,029-16,044.
10. Hayward, T. L., A. W. Mantyla, R. L. Lynn, P. E. Smith, and T. K. Chereskin. 1994. The state of the California Current in 1993-1994. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Rep. 35:19-35.
11. Hayward, T. L., D. R. Cayan, P. J. S. Franks, R. J. Lynn, A. W. Mantyla, J. A. McGowan, P. E. Smith, F. B. Schwing, and E. L. Venrick. 1995. The state of the California Current in 1994-1995: a period of transition. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Rep. 36:19-39.
12. Hayward, T. L., S. L. Cummings, D. R. Cayan, F. P. Chavez, R. J. Lynn, A. W. Mantyla, P. P. Niiler, F. B. Schwing, R. R. Veit, and E. L. Venrick. 1996. The state of the California Current in 1995-1996: continuing declines in macrozooplankton biomass during a period of nearly normal circulation. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Rep. 37:22-37.
13. Hewitt, R. P. 1988. Historical review of the oceanographic approach to fishery research. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Rep. 29:27-41.
14. Lau, N.-C. 1997. Interactions between global SST anomalies and the mid-latitude atmospheric circulation. Bull. Am. Met. Soc. 76:21-33.
15. Lynn, R. J., K. A. Bliss, and L. E. Eber. 1982. Vertical and horizontal distributions of seasonal mean temperatures, salinity, sigma-t, stability, dynamic height, oxygen and oxygen saturation in the California Current, 1950-1978. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Atlas 30.
16. Lynn, R. J., F. B. Schwing, and T. L. Hayward. 1995. The effect of the 1991-93 ENSO on the California Current system. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Rep. 36:57-71.
17. Lynn, R. J., and J. J. Simpson. 1987. The California Current system: the seasonal variability of its physical characteristics. J. Geophys. Res. 92:12,947-12,966.
18. Mantyla, A. W., E. L. Venrick, and T. L. Hayward. 1995. Primary production and chlorophyll relationships, derived from ten years of CalCOFI measurements. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Rep. 36:159-166.
19. Murphree, T., and C. Reynolds. 1995. El Niño and La Niña effects on the northeast Pacific: the 1991-1993 and 1988-1989 events. Calif. Coop. Oceanic Fish. Invest. Rep. 36:45-56.
20. NCEP. National Centers for Environmental Prediction. 1997a. Climate diagnostics bulletin, January 1997. Climate Prediction Center, NOAA/NWS/ NCEP. No. 97/1. 75 pp.
21. _. 1997b. Climate diagnostics bulletin, April 1997. Climate Prediction Center, NOAA/NWS/NCEP. No. 97/4. 77 pp.
22. Pyle, P., L. B. Spear, and D. G. Ainley. 1993. Observations of dark-rumped petrels off Oregon and California. West. Birds 24:110-112.
23. Rago, T. A., and C. A. Collins. 1995. Hydrographic data along the California coast from Pt. Lobos to Cape San Martin 22-25 October 1995. Naval Postgraduate School Tech. Rep. NPS-OC-95-005, Monterey, CA. 87 pp.
24. Rago, T. A., C. A. Collins, and J. Steger. 1997. Hydrographic data along the California coast from Pigeon Point to Cape San Martin though July 1996. Naval Postgraduate School Tech. Rep. NPS-OC-97-002, Monterey, CA. 154 pp.
25. Ribic, C. A., D. G. Ainley, and L. B. Spear. 1992. Effects of El Niño and La Niña on seabird assemblages in the equatorial Pacific. Mar. Ecol. Prog. Ser. 80:109-124.
26. Roemmich, D., and J. McGowan. 1995. Climatic warming and the decline of zooplankton in the California Current. Science 267:1324-1326.
27. Rosenfeld, L. R., F. B. Schwing, N. Garfield, and D. E. Tracy. 1994. Bifurcated flow from an upwelling center: a cold water source for Monterey Bay. Continental Shelf Res. 14:931-964.
28. Sakuma, K. M., F. B. Schwing, H. A. Parker, and S. Ralston. 1995. The physical oceanography off the central California coast during February and May-June, 1991: a summary of CTD data from larval and pelagic juvenile rockfish surveys. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-220, 156 pp.
29. Schwing, F. B., M. O'Farrell, J. M. Steger, and K. Baltz. 1996. Coastal upwelling indices, west coast of North America, 1946-95. U.S. Dep. Commer., NOAA Tech. Memo. NOAA-TM-NMFS-SWFSC-231, 207 pp.
30. Simpson, J. J. 1992. Response of the southern California Current system to the mid-latitude north Pacific coastal warming events of 1982-1983 and 1940-1941. Fish. Oceanogr. 1:57-79.
31. Spear, L. B., D. G. Ainley, N. Nur, and S. N. G. Howell. 1995. Population size and factors affecting at-sea distribution of four endangered procellariids in the tropical Pacific. Condor 97:613-638.
32. Thomas, W. H., and C. H. Gibson. 1990. Quantified small-scale turbulence inhibits a red-tide dinoflagellate, Gonyaulax polyedra Stein. Deep-Sea Res. 37:1583-1593.
33. Veit, R. R., J. A. McGowan, D. G. Ainley, T. R. Wahl, and P. Pyle. 1997. Apex marine predator declines ninety percent in association with changing oceanic climate. Global Change Biol. 3:23-28.
34. Walker, P. W., D. M. Newton, and A. W. Mantyla. 1994. Surface water temperatures, salinities and densities at shore stations. United States west coast. SIO Ref. 94-9.
35. Yoklavich, M., R. Starr, J. Steger, H. G. Greene, F. Schwing, and C. Malzone. 1997. Mapping benthic habitats and ocean currents near the Big Creek Ecological Reserve. Final report to NOAA/NOS/Monterey Bay National Marine Sanctuary. 53 pp.