Impacts of the 2015–2016 El Niño on the California Current System: Early assessment and comparison to past events

Geophysical Research Letters

Volumn 43, Issue 13, 2016, Pages 7072-7080

  Jacox, Michael G ^a,b   Hazen, Elliott L ^b   Zaba, Katherine D ^c   Rudnick, Daniel L ^c   Edwards, Christopher A ^a   Moore, Andrew M ^a   Bograd, Steven J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

1997 1998; El Ni o; ENSO; glider; ROMS; the Blob

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC TEMPERATURE; ECOLOGY; ECOSYSTEMS; GLIDERS; OCEANOGRAPHY; ROM; SURFACE WATERS;

1997-1998; CALIFORNIA CURRENT SYSTEMS; ECOSYSTEM FUNCTIONING; ENSO; PHYTOPLANKTON BIOMASS; REGIONAL OCEAN MODELING; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE ANOMALIES; THE BLOB;

NICKEL;

BIOMASS; ECOSYSTEM MODELING; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; NET PRIMARY PRODUCTION; PHYTOPLANKTON; REMOTELY OPERATED VEHICLE; SEA SURFACE TEMPERATURE; UPWELLING;

CALIFORNIA CURRENT; PACIFIC OCEAN; PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHEAST); PACIFIC OCEAN (NORTHWEST);

EID: 84979036465     PISSN: 00948276     EISSN: 19448007     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/2016GL069716     Document Type: Article

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