Coastal Transport Processes Affecting Inner-Shelf Ecosystems in the California Current System
Wind-driven upwelling is weak and intermittent in the Southern California Bight, a region sheltered from the strong, prevailing equatorward winds typical of most of the California Current System. Thus, other physical transport processes than wind-driven upwelling supply subsidies of nutrients, bioge...
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Format: | Article |
Language: | English |
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The Oceanography Society
2013-09-01
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Series: | Oceanography |
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Online Access: | http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/26-3_washburn.pdf |