Upwelling bays: How coastal upwelling controls circulation, habitat, and productivity in bays

JL Largier - Annual Review of Marine Science, 2020 - annualreviews.org
Bays in coastal upwelling regions are physically driven and biochemically fueled by their
interaction with open coastal waters. Wind-driven flow over the shelf imposes a circulation in …

[HTML][HTML] Recognizing low-inflow estuaries as a common estuary paradigm

JL Largier - Estuaries and Coasts, 2023 - Springer
It has become clear that estuaries with low rates of freshwater inflow are an important but
overlooked sphere of estuarine science. Low-inflow estuaries (LIEs) represent a major class …

Rapid response to coastal upwelling in a semienclosed bay

M Gilcoto, JL Largier, ED Barton… - Geophysical …, 2017 - Wiley Online Library
Bays/estuaries forced by local wind show bidirectional exchange flow. When forced by
remote wind, they exhibit unidirectional flow adjustment to coastal sea level. Acoustic …

[HTML][HTML] Seasonal variability of upwelling and downwelling surface current patterns in a small coastal embayment

N Trautman, RK Walter - Continental Shelf Research, 2021 - Elsevier
Upwelling in coastal embayments is important to a variety of physical and biological
processes. Despite their ubiquity, circulation patterns in small bays (width and length …

Vertical distribution of decapod larvae in the entrance of an equatorward facing bay of central Chile: implications for transport

B Yannicelli, LR Castro… - Journal of Plankton …, 2006 - academic.oup.com
Two short biophysical surveys were carried out in order to assess how the decapod
crustacean larvae vertical distribution and circulation patterns in an equatorward facing …

[HTML][HTML] A high-resolution modeling study of the circulation patterns at a coastal embayment: Ría de Pontevedra (NW Spain) under upwelling and downwelling …

ER Cruz, R Nolasco, XA Padin, M Gilcoto… - Frontiers in Marine …, 2021 - frontiersin.org
Estuarine exchange flow plays an important role in the biogeochemical properties exchange
between the coastal ocean and the estuaries. Circulation patterns inside the Rias Baixas …

Examination of winter circulation in a northern Gulf of Mexico estuary

J Lin, C Li, KM Boswell, M Kimball, L Rozas - Estuaries and Coasts, 2016 - Springer
Numerical model experiments were conducted to examine how estuarine circulation and
salinity distribution in the Calcasieu Lake Estuary (CLE) of southwest Louisiana respond to …

Surface water subduction during a downwelling event in a semienclosed bay

ED Barton, R Torres, FG Figueiras… - Journal of …, 2016 - Wiley Online Library
The Ría de Vigo is a bay strongly influenced by upwelling‐downwelling cycles along the
adjacent coast of NW Iberia. Moored and ship‐board observations during September 2006 …

Modulation of the semidiurnal cycle of turbulent dissipation by wind‐driven upwelling in a coastal embayment

B Fernández‐Castro, M Gilcoto… - Journal of …, 2018 - Wiley Online Library
With two 25‐hour series of turbulent microstructure and currents observations carried out in
August 2013, during spring (CHAOS 1) and neap tides (CHAOS 2), we investigated the …

[HTML][HTML] Biogeochemical Response of the Water Column of Concepción Bay, Chile, to a New Regime of Atmospheric and Oceanographic Variability

L Bustos-Espinoza, P Torres-Ramírez, S Figueroa… - Geosciences, 2024 - mdpi.com
Concepción Bay is a socio-economic and ecologically important embayment whose
hydrographic variability has been historically regulated by wind-modulated seasonal …