Showing papers in "Journal of Marine Systems in 2005"

TL;DR: The Swedish icebreaker Oden conducted an extensive oceanographic survey of the East Greenland Current from north of Fram Strait to south of Denmark Strait as a part of the Arctic Ocean 2002 programme to study the Nordic Seas, while RV Knorr of Woods Hole worked in the ice-free parts.

TL;DR: The changes in the environmental features of the Yellow Sea during the last 25 years of the 20th century were studied using a set of seasonally monitored data along a transect (at 36°N) maintained by the State Oceanic Administration of China as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: The surface and upper-thermocline waters of the Canary Basin are characterised by very strong coupling between the open ocean and the coastal upwelling region as discussed by the authors, which is the true Canary Current.

TL;DR: In this article, during the spring transition period, May 4 to June 9, 2002, closely monitored atmospheric conditions and properties of the snow-sea ice system, including thermal, physical and optical properties of snow cover (e.g., temperature, grain size, light attenuation), ice thickness and salinity, and biomass of bottom ice algae.

TL;DR: In this paper, the mean dynamic topography of the Mediterranean Sea was derived from the T/P, Jason, ERS and Envisat altimetric data using the mean EKE structure.

TL;DR: In this article, the quality of surface winds derived from four meteorological models is assessed in the semi-enclosed Adriatic Sea over a 2-month period: a global hydrostatic model ECMWF T511 (40 km resolution), a hydrostatic limited area model LAMBO (20 km), and two non-hydrostatic limited areas models: LAMI (7 km) and COAMPSk (4 km).

TL;DR: In this article, total nitrogen and phosphorus budgets based on more than 32,000 oceanographic stations have been constructed for the first time for all seven major marine basins within the Baltic Sea, including the Kattegat.

TL;DR: In this paper, a physical-chemical-biological model of the Barents Sea is used to simulate the necessary conditions for primary production, which is validated to in situ current measurements and temperature fields, and is compared with physical and chemical data from a section across the central part of the basin.

TL;DR: In this paper, the uncertainties present in a high-resolution coupled hydrodynamic-ecosystem model of the northwest European continental shelf are assessed using a simple cost function to systematically compare the accuracy of different variables.

TL;DR: In this article, the effect of coastal upwelling on the late summer pelagic environment, focusing on the two main bloom-forming filamentous cyanobacteria species, Aphanizomenon flos-aquae and Nodularia spumigena, was evaluated on the basis of field observations in July and August 1999 in the western Gulf of Finland.

TL;DR: In this article, the carbon flow networks of the Kromme, Swartkops and Sundays estuaries, situated on the south coast of South Africa, were analyzed using ecological network analysis.

TL;DR: In this paper, a hybrid approach for eutrophication assessment in estuarine and coastal ecosystems is presented, where a detailed dynamic model was developed for this ecosystem, and the outputs were used to drive the screening model.

TL;DR: The analysis of over seven hundred samples of sediments have made it possible to define a detailed distribution of seabed surface sediment properties like grain size, carbonate and organic matter content of the rias of Vigo, Pontevedra and Arousa (NW Spain).

TL;DR: In this article, a 3D circulation model with a biogeochemical module (ERGOM) was applied for the simulation of trophic conditions in the Baltic Sea a century ago.

TL;DR: In this paper, the temporal and spatial variabilities in the abundance and respiratory activity of plankton communities (Synechococcus type cyanobacteria and heterotrophic nanoflagellates) were investigated.

TL;DR: In this article, the difference in erodibility and aggregation in a tidal basin including both subtidal and intertidal study sites and to use these results to explain the shifting erosion/deposition cycles at the sites.

TL;DR: The hydrography and dynamics of the Rias Baixas adjacent shelf region is reviewed in this article with the aim to serve as a general ‘state-of-the-art’ reference and to help introduce several topic-related articles in this special volume.

TL;DR: In this paper, spatial patterns and time evolution of the chlorophyll-a (chl-a) biomass are analyzed, based on in situ and satellite data SeaWiFS-derived chl -a concentration L2 products were used to track the chlorophll front and estimate its westward migration velocity (maximum up to 29 km day−1), as well as to characterize the frontal system and its evolution.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present hydrographic data for several sections located along the African coastline and off Cape Ghir, carried out at times of weak surface winds (October 1995 and September 1997).

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the water mass composition of the Denmark Strait Overflow Water (DSOW) by multivariate analysis and found that water masses both from the Nordic Seas and the Arctic Ocean are important for the formation of DSOW.

TL;DR: In this paper, the Irminger basin over the annual cycle 2001-2002 is estimated by considering changes in inorganic nutrient standing stocks between April and August 2002, with additional terms for nutrient fluxes across the thermocline and atmospheric deposition.

TL;DR: In this paper, high-resolution hydrographic data from the eastern and northwestern sides of South Georgia (southwest Atlantic) is used to study the changing circulation and water mass properties of the region.

TL;DR: A large scale survey of the Scotia Sea was undertaken by the British Antarctic Survey as part of the Southern Ocean Global Ocean Ecosystems Dynamics programme as mentioned in this paper, which provided a unique opportunity to examine the distribution of phytoplankton biomass and primary production in relation to the physico-chemical environment of the Canada Sea.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors applied the three-dimensional modeling system MIKE 3 to quantify the dynamics of the fine-grained sediment in Oresund over a year and found that suspended sediment concentrations were low, generally not exceeding 20 mg l−1.

TL;DR: In this paper, a reduced-order approach for four-dimensional variational data assimilation, based on a prior EO F analysis of a model trajectory, is presented, which implies a natural model-based definition of a mul tivariate background error covariance matrix, and an important decrease of the computational burden o f the method, due to the drastic reduction of the control space.

TL;DR: In this paper, the physicochemical and biological structure of a permanent filament off Cape Ghir (31°N) and estimated the transport of organic matter associated with it were studied and the authors concluded that the net-offshore transport may contribute to the enrichment of offshore oligotrophic waters throughout the year, partly explaining the metabolic imbalance found in open ocean waters of the subtropical Northeast Atlantic.

TL;DR: In this article, a 3D-ecosystem model of the Baltic Sea was used to analyze the effects of two different 50% nitrogen and phosphorus load reduction scenarios, with significant regional differences in load reduction.

TL;DR: In this article, three methods have been used to calculate sediment yield and denudation rates in the Ria de Vigo: (1) measurements of sediment loads, (2) measurement of sediment accumulation rates at the coast, and (3) theoretical calculations of potential denUDation.

TL;DR: The characteristics and interannual variability of the deep water masses in the North and Central Aegean Sea are investigated through the data sets of the Hellenic Navy Hydrographic Service (HNHS) and the MEDATLAS 1997 project.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors carried out a sampling program to assess the activity, biomass and composition of the small-sized benthic biota around the active mud-oozing and methane-seeping Hakon Mosby Mud Volcano (HMMV) on the SW Barents Sea slope, Northern North-Atlantic.