Showing papers in "Continental Shelf Research in 2016"

TL;DR: The health risks by consumption of these species was assessed and showed to present no threat to public health concerning PAH intakes, and the results would provide a useful aid for sustainable marine management in the region.

TL;DR: Wang et al. as discussed by the authors used the geographic information system (GIS) to analyze the temporal and spatial distributions of harmful algal bloom (HAB) outbreaks in the Bohai Sea during 1952-2014.

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of fine clay mineral characteristics on metal sorption in a typical urbanizing small watershed was investigated, and the relationship between metal content and properties of the surface sediments was also revealed by canonical correlation analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new hydrographic climatology has been created for the continental shelf region, extending from the Labrador shelf to the Mid-Atlantic Bight, focusing on the coherent structure of the mean seasonal cycle of surface and bottom temperature and salinity and its variation along the shelf and upper slope.

TL;DR: In this article, an integrated approach combined the measurement and 2D hydrodynamic-advection/dispersion model is used to simulate circulation and temperature/salinity, and estimated the water residence time in lagoon under different forcing mechanisms, such as tide, wind and freshwater discharge during the dry and wet periods.

TL;DR: In this article, a 3D polygon habitat module is developed for the open-source Connectivity Modeling System to simulate larval movement behavior of the bicolor damselfish, Stegastes partitus, in a realistic 3D representation of the coral reef habitat.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors proposed a new regional methodology for water turbidity retrieval using the MODIS red band at 250m spatial resolution in the Danube Delta coastal area, and evaluated the dynamics of turbidity for multiple time periods: from local Terra to Aqua overpasses (couple of hours), daily and monthly.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors reported the first report on eddy-entrained Pearl River plume into the South China Sea (SCS), which would raise a new view on irregular transportation of nutrient and carbon and its related biogeochemical influence on the oligotrophic ocean.

TL;DR: In this paper, a new index of ecological status, named Mesophotic Assemblages Ecological Status (MAES) index, was elaborated on the basis of ROV (Remotely Operated Vehicle) photography and video footage in order to assess the status of mesophotic megabenthic assemblages from hard bottom.

TL;DR: The influence of environmental gradients on the spatio-temporal variability of phytoplankton (Chlorophyll-a) in the macrotidal Chikugo River Estuary were studied during a two-week period of September 2010.

TL;DR: It was found that, first, LD metrics showed no correlation with contamination levels or distance from the platform, and second, although LAs and DAs significantly differed in species composition and did not overlap in multivariate space, the difference was generated by a single species, the semelid deposit-feeding bivalve Ervilia purpurea.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors tested three completely different methods (a spatial impact index, a food web model and a Bayesian expert method) to evaluate the effects of different management measures on marine ecosystems and found that a large uncertainty existed regarding the ecosystem response to the management scenarios.

TL;DR: In this paper, an idealized model of the cross-sectionally averaged shallow water equations is used to analyze the propagation of the Yangtze Estuary and the division of net water transport over different channels in an estuarine network.

TL;DR: In this paper, sediment dynamics in the shallow coastal waters from the Amazon River mouth to the Capes region (northern part of the Amapa region of Brazil and eastern part of French Guiana), where large mud banks are formed, are investigated.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address the possibilities of a separation of the overall increasing trend in maximum water levels of semi-enclosed water bodies into associated trends in the heights of local storm surges and basin-scale components of the water level based on recorded and modelled local water level time series.

TL;DR: In this paper, the wind-driven circulation and wind-induced coastal upwelling in a large shelf sea with a zonally oriented coast are examined and the results of a general circulation model were used with an empirical orthogonal function analysis to study the variability of the currents.

TL;DR: In this paper, a second-order approach is proposed to project coastal response and predict the discrete shoreline rotations for ENSO flavors, which is not as simple as the existing paradigm that (anti-) clockwise rotation occurs during El Nino (La Nina).

TL;DR: In this paper, the spatial distribution of the phytoplankton (diversity, composition, and cell abundance) was described in relation to local environmental conditions across the Arabian Gulf, the Strait of Hormuz, and the Sea of Oman based on data of ROPME cruise of winter 2006.

TL;DR: In this paper, a high-resolution modeling study of the circulation along the Campania coastal system (CCS) in the southern Tyrrhenian Sea is presented, where surface momentum, heat, and freshwater fluxes computed from the non-hydrostatic SKIRON/Eta atmospheric modelling system outputs are analyzed in detail.

TL;DR: In this article, a multi-variable empirical surface pCO2 model based on concurrent MODIS (Moderate Resolution Imaging Spectroradiometer) estimates of surface chlorophyll a concentrations (CHL, mg m−3), diffuse light attenuation at 490nm (Kd_Lee, m−1), and sea surface temperature (SST, °C) is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model is presented to determine the wavelength, the height and, more importantly, the migration speed of sand waves (also named tidal dunes) in shallow tidal seas.

TL;DR: In this paper, surface drifters and virtual particles are used to investigate transport between seven coastal regions in the central and southern Adriatic Sea to estimate the degree to which these regions function as a network.

TL;DR: In this article, an attempt of proposition of indicators of good environmental status and associated thresholds based on zooplankton data was made to evaluate the environmental status of Toulon Bay in the Mediterranean.

TL;DR: In this article, the role played by shelf waters in controlling sea-air CO 2 fluxes by investigating the southwestern Atlantic Ocean (21-35°S) region, where physical, chemical and biological measurements were made on board the Brazilian R. V. Cruzeiro do Sul during late spring 2010 and early summer 2011.

TL;DR: In this article, a self-designed bottom boundary layer hydrodynamic and suspended sediment concentration (SSC) measuring system was built to observe the hydrodynamics and the SSC processes over the intertidal mudflats at the middle part of the Jiangsu coast during August 8-10, 2013.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used an ecosystem modeling approach to assess and quantify the health status of a semi-enclosed embayment of the Mediterranean Sea, the Amvrakikos Gulf (surface: 405 km 2 ; maximum depth: 60 m).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate low frequency variability in shelf waters at two cross-shelf locations (i) upstream and downstream of the typical EAC separation latitude, using at least 3 years of moored in situ temperature and velocity observations.

TL;DR: In this article, the source, composition and reactivity of sedimentary organic carbon (OC) in a river-dominated continental marginal sea, the eastern Yellow Sea, was investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, a three-year observation using an acoustic Doppler current profiler (ADCP) operated on a ferry provides the first nearly continuous data set concerning the seasonal flow pattern and the volume transport from the Taiwan Strait to the East China Sea.