Dancing with the tides: fluctuations of coastal phytoplankton orchestrated by different oscillatory modes of the tidal cycle

AN Blauw, E Beninca, RWPM Laane, N Greenwood… - PLoS …, 2012 - journals.plos.org
Population fluctuations are often driven by an interplay between intrinsic population
processes and extrinsic environmental forcing. To investigate this interplay, we analyzed …

Distribution and trajectories of floating and benthic marine macrolitter in the south-eastern North Sea

L Gutow, M Ricker, JM Holstein, J Dannheim… - Marine pollution …, 2018 - Elsevier
In coastal waters the identification of sources, trajectories and deposition sites of marine litter
is often hampered by the complex oceanography of shallow shelf seas. We conducted a …

High-resolution satellite turbidity and sea surface temperature observations of river plume interactions during a significant flood event

VE Brando, F Braga, L Zaggia, C Giardino… - Ocean …, 2015 - os.copernicus.org
Sea surface temperature (SST) and turbidity (T) derived from Landsat 8 (L8) imagery were
used to characterize river plumes in the northern Adriatic Sea (NAS) during a significant …

Modelling potential production of macroalgae farms in UK and Dutch coastal waters

J van der Molen, P Ruardij, K Mooney… - …, 2018 - bg.copernicus.org
There is increasing interest in macroalgae farming in European waters for a range of
applications, including food, chemical extraction for biofuel production. This study uses a 3 …

[HTML][HTML] Circulation of the European northwest shelf: a Lagrangian perspective

M Ricker, EV Stanev - Ocean Science, 2020 - os.copernicus.org
The dynamics of the European northwest shelf (ENWS), the surrounding deep ocean, and
the continental slope between them are analysed in a framework of numerical simulations …

Estuarine suspended particulate matter concentrations from sun-synchronous satellite remote sensing: Tidal and meteorological effects and biases

MA Eleveld, D Van der Wal, T Van Kessel - Remote Sensing of …, 2014 - Elsevier
Optical data from a sun-synchronous satellite were used to investigate how large-scale
estuarine suspended particulate matter (SPM) concentrations were affected by tidal and bulk …

The transition between coastal and offshore areas in the North Sea unraveled by suspended particle composition

X Desmit, M Schartau, R Riethmüller… - Science of the Total …, 2024 - Elsevier
Identifying the mechanisms that contribute to the variability of suspended particulate matter
concentrations in coastal areas is important but difficult, especially due to the complexity of …

Repeated mapping of reefs constructed by Sabellaria spinulosa Leuckart 1849 at an offshore wind farm site

B Pearce, JM Fariñas-Franco, C Wilson, J Pitts… - Continental Shelf …, 2014 - Elsevier
Sabellaria spinulosa reefs are considered to be sensitive and of high conservation status.
This article evaluates the feasibility of using remote sensing technology to delineate S …

Wave generation of gravity‐driven sediment flows on a predominantly sandy seabed

RP Flores, S Rijnsburger, S Meirelles… - Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Wave‐supported gravity flows (WSGFs) generate rates of sediment flux far exceeding other
cross‐shelf transport processes, contributing disproportionately to shelf morphology and net …

Tidal impacts on primary production in the North Sea

C Zhao, U Daewel, C Schrum - Earth System Dynamics, 2019 - esd.copernicus.org
This study highlights the importance of tides in controlling the spatial and temporal
distributions of phytoplankton and other factors related to growth, such as nutrients and light …