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Showing papers in "Journal of Marine Systems in 2007"


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TL;DR: An overview of the effort centered on the HYbrid Coordinate Ocean Model (HYCOM) to develop an eddy-resolving, real-time global and basin-scale ocean hindcast, nowcast, and prediction system in the context of the Global Ocean Data Assimilation Experiment (GODAE) is provided in this paper.

795 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a new automated quality control system for oceanic temperature and temperature-salinity profiles is presented, which is used for near-real time ocean analysis and for initialising both short-range ocean forecasts and seasonal atmosphere-ocean forecasts.

494 citations


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TL;DR: A series of techniques are described, including a 2-stage self-organising map (SOM), non-parametric multivariate analysis, and error statistics, to a complex spatio-temporal model run for the period 1988–1989 in the Southern North Sea, coinciding with the North Sea Project which collected a wealth of observational data.

228 citations


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TL;DR: The set of equations for global ocean biogeochemistry deterministic models have been formulated in a comprehensive and unified form in order to use them in numerical simulations of the marine ecosystem for climate change studies as mentioned in this paper.

226 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured simultaneously the methane (CH4) and carbon dioxide (CO2) surface concentrations and water-air fluxes by floating chambers (FC) in the Petit-Saut Reservoir (French Guiana) and its tidal river (Sinnamary River) downstream of the dam, during two field experiments in wet (May 2003) and dry season (December 2003).

216 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, a coupled carbonate system is used to simulate the temporal and spatial variability in pH across the southern North Sea as it relates to the environmental and biological processes affecting CO2, namely, photosynthesis and respiration, riverine boundary conditions and atmospheric CO2 concentrations.

206 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a trophic mass-balance model was developed to characterise the food web structure and functioning of the Northern and Central Adriatic Sea and to quantify the ecosystem impacts of fishing during the 1990s.

203 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, the authors analyzed the South China Sea (SCS) and its monsoonal variability for tropical cyclone (TC) genesis in each monsoon season from 1948 to 2003 and found that TC genesis occurs over the region where the marine environment satisfies the four criterions on, respectively, the sea surface temperature, mid-troposphere relative humidity, vertical shear of the horizontal winds and low-level atmospheric vorticity.

171 citations


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Hao Wei1, Yunchang He1, Qingji Li1, Zhiyu Liu1, Haitang Wang1 

169 citations


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TL;DR: In this article, a method is developed to estimate the required mean dynamic topography (MDT) combining oceanic observations as altimetric and in-situ measurements and outputs from an ocean general circulation model (OGCM).

152 citations


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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors apply summary error statistics to a complex 3D model (POLCOMS-ERSEM) run for the period 1988-1989 in the southern North Sea utilising information from the North Sea Project, which collected a wealth of observational data.

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TL;DR: In this article, the relationship between ice algal standing stock and benthic respiration between January and July 2004 at a time series station in the southeastern Beaufort Sea was investigated.

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TL;DR: In this paper, sediment traps and oceanographic sensors were moored from October 2003 to August 2004 over the 300- and 500-m isobaths on the slope of the Mackenzie Shelf (Beaufort Sea, Arctic Ocean).

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors show that the Arctic shelf seas (the Laptev and East-Siberian seas) may become a strong source of atmospheric CO2 because of oxidation of bio-available eroded terrestrial carbon and river transport.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigate the link between changing human activities over the past 50 years and coastal eutrophication in the eastern Channel and Southern Bight of the North Sea with a focus on the Belgian coastal zone (BCZ).

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TL;DR: In this article, a high resolution nested model of the Western Iberia shelf is developed and compared with field observations using an embedded particle tracking submodel that includes advection, diffusion and diel vertical migration to simulate crab larvae dispersal.

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TL;DR: In this paper, seasonal and spatial variation of dissolved and atmospheric methane (CH 4 ) was measured in the estuaries of the Sundarban mangrove ecosystem from January to December 2003.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors present 2 years of data obtained during the late summer period (September 2003 and September 2004) for the East Siberian Arctic shelf (ESAS) and show that the surface layer of shelf water was supersaturated up to 2500% relative to the present average atmospheric methane content of 1.85 ppm, pointing to the rivers as a strong source of dissolved methane.

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TL;DR: In this paper, four altimeter missions are intercalibrated and merged in an objective analysis scheme with the aim of improving the estimation of mesoscale surface ocean circulation in the Mediterranean Sea.

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TL;DR: In this article, the authors measured dissolved methane (CH4), carbon dioxide (CO2) and nitrous oxide (N2O) in the surface waters of Rio San Pedro, a tidal creek in the salt marsh area of the Bay of Cadiz (SW Spain).

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TL;DR: In this paper, satellite remote sensing and a linear ocean model suggest that relaxation of trade winds along the equator triggered Kelvin waves that crossed the basin within a month in early 2001 and persisted for about three months.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the heat loss and area of three polynyas in the western and central Ross Sea for the period 1992-2002, and found that the polynya ice production approximately equals the ice export.

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TL;DR: In this article, the accuracy of the simulated phytoplankton spatial distribution is further evaluated by comparing simulated surface chlorophyll a with that derived from the satellite sensor MERIS for the year 2003.

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TL;DR: In this paper, the response of the Mediterranean Sea and various sub-basins to changes in the freshwater budget is investigated in a process-oriented study, using the POM model.

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TL;DR: In this article, the isotopic composition of dissolved sulfate of a marginal sea, the North Sea, was investigated by means of stable-isotope-ratio-monitoring mass spectrometry.

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TL;DR: In this paper, a 3CCD digital video camera fixed at 14 m elevation was used to investigate how whitecap coverage on the ocean surface responds to wave-field conditions and found that whitecaps are produced most actively under the condition of the pure windsea and they tend to be suppressed by the presence of swell.

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TL;DR: In this paper, three asymptotes are identified for gas exchange mediated by high void-fraction bubble plumes and a semi-empirical parameterization of bubble-mediated gas transfer is devised on the basis of these parameters, which describes the dependence of the overall transfer velocity on plume properties and molecular properties of the gas.

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TL;DR: In this paper, two wave models: WAM and SWAN, were used to forecast the wave wave and wind wave wave wave properties during two severe storms registered in November 2001 and March-April 2002.

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TL;DR: In this article, an approach to complex spatio-temporal marine ecosystem modelling as applied to the North Western European Continental Shelf is presented, which combines an eddy-permitting (approximately 6 km horizontal resolution) baroclinic model, the Proudman Oceanographic Laboratory Coastal Ocean Modelling System (POLCOMS), with the European Regional Seas Ecosystem Model (ERSEM).

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TL;DR: In this paper, a new formulation for air-sea fluxes of weakly soluble gases as a function of wind speed is proposed to extend existing formulations, which can be simplified by combining surface equilibrium terms that allow exchange of gases into and out of the ocean, and gas injection terms that only allow gas to enter the ocean.