Application of a data-assimilative regional ocean modeling system for assessing California Current System ocean conditions, krill, and juvenile rockfish interannual variability

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 41, Issue 16, 2014, Pages 5942-5950

  Schroeder, Isaac D ^a,b   Santora, Jarrod A ^c,d   Moore, Andrew M ^c   Edwards, Christopher A ^c   Fiechter, Jerome ^c   Hazen, Elliott L ^b   Bograd, Steven J ^b   Field, John C ^d   Wells, Brian K ^d  

^a University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^d SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; OCEAN HABITATS;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEMS; HYDROGRAPHIC PROPERTIES; INTERANNUAL VARIABILITY; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; POTENTIAL DENSITY; REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING SYSTEM; SPATIAL AND TEMPORAL SCALE; TRANSPORT DYNAMICS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

ABUNDANCE; ANNUAL VARIATION; COASTAL ZONE; DATA ASSIMILATION; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; FISH; JUVENILE; PARAMETERIZATION; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; UPWELLING; WATER COLUMN;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN;

EUPHAUSIACEA;

EID: 84906041894     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2014GL061045     Document Type: Article

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