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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Main Authors: Libe Washburn, Erika McPhee-Shaw
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: The Oceanography Society 2013-09-01
Series:Oceanography
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Online Access:http://tos.org/oceanography/archive/26-3_washburn.pdf