Changing ocean, marine ecosystems, and dependent communities

NL Bindoff, WWL Cheung, JG Kairo, J Arístegui… - 2019 - ri.conicet.gov.ar
The ocean is a key component of the Earth system (Chapter 1) as it provides essential life
supporting services (Inniss et al. 2017). For example, it stores heat trapped in the …

The winds and currents mission concept

E Rodríguez, M Bourassa, D Chelton… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
The Winds and Currents Mission (WaCM) is a proposed approach to meet the need
identified by the NRC Decadal Survey for the simultaneous measurements of ocean vector …

[HTML][HTML] Integrated observations of global surface winds, currents, and waves: requirements and challenges for the next decade

AB Villas Bôas, F Ardhuin, A Ayet… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Ocean surface winds, currents, and waves play a crucial role in exchanges of momentum,
energy, heat, freshwater, gases, and other tracers between the ocean, atmosphere, and ice …

Persistent uncertainties in ocean net primary production climate change projections at regional scales raise challenges for assessing impacts on ecosystem services

A Tagliabue, L Kwiatkowski, L Bopp… - Frontiers in …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Ocean net primary production (NPP) results from CO2 fixation by marine phytoplankton,
catalysing the transfer of organic matter and energy to marine ecosystems, supporting most …

Coastal upwelling revisited: Ekman, Bakun, and improved upwelling indices for the US West Coast

MG Jacox, CA Edwards, EL Hazen… - Journal of Geophysical …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
Coastal upwelling is responsible for thriving marine ecosystems and fisheries that are
disproportionately productive relative to their surface area, particularly in the world's major …

[HTML][HTML] Modulation of wind work by oceanic current interaction with the atmosphere

L Renault, MJ Molemaker… - Journal of Physical …, 2016 - journals.ametsoc.org
Modulation of Wind Work by Oceanic Current Interaction with the Atmosphere in: Journal of
Physical Oceanography Volume 46 Issue 6 (2016) Jump to Content Jump to Main Navigation …

A dynamically downscaled ensemble of future projections for the California current system

M Pozo Buil, MG Jacox, J Fiechter… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Given the ecological and economic importance of eastern boundary upwelling systems like
the California Current System (CCS), their evolution under climate change is of considerable …

Climate-driven aerobic habitat loss in the California Current System

EM Howard, JL Penn, H Frenzel, BA Seibel… - Science …, 2020 - science.org
Climate warming is expected to intensify hypoxia in the California Current System (CCS),
threatening its diverse and productive marine ecosystem. We analyzed past regional …

Southern hemisphere eastern boundary upwelling systems emerging as future marine heatwave hotspots under greenhouse warming

S Wang, Z Jing, L Wu, S Sun, Q Peng, H Wang… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Marine heatwaves (MHWs) exert devastating impacts on ecosystems and have been
revealed to increase in their incidence, duration, and intensity in response to greenhouse …

Dampening of submesoscale currents by air-sea stress coupling in the Californian upwelling system

L Renault, JC McWilliams, J Gula - Scientific reports, 2018 - nature.com
Oceanic submesoscale currents (SMCs) occur on an scale of 0.1–10 km horizontally and
have a large influence on the oceanic variability and on ecosystems. At the mesoscale (10 …