Showing papers in "Journal of Marine Systems in 2013"

TL;DR: In this paper, satellite-derived sea surface temperature (SST) anomalies in February 2011 peaked at 3°C above the longterm monthly means over a wide area from Ningaloo (22°S) to Cape Leeuwin (34°S), along the coast and out to > 200 km offshore.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors compare and contrast the ecosystems of the Barents and Chukchi Seas and find that the difference in fish abundance is driven by differences in the heat and plankton advected into them, and the amount of primary production consumed in the upper water column.

TL;DR: In this paper, the spring bloom in Kongsfjorden, Svalbard was followed during the years 2006-2008 to study the bloom dynamics in relation to environmental factors.

TL;DR: In this article, the seasonal and spatial variation of the suspended sediment concentration (SSC) in the Yellow Sea and the East China Sea (YSECS) was studied using turbidity, temperature and velocity field data from all seasons of 2011.

TL;DR: The Gulf of Lions ecosystem was described using the Ecopath mass-balance model to characterise its structure and functioning and examine the effects of the multispecific fisheries operating in this area.

TL;DR: In this article, a seasonal climatology of the circulation in the Bay of Biscay has been computed based on Lagrangian drifter trajectories collected from 1992 to 2009.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a river basin-coastal sea chain model to describe the evolution of nutrient loads to the Belgian Costal Zone originating from the Seine, Somme and Scheldt watersheds from 1984 to 2007 in order to assess the nutrient reduction with respect to the OSPAR goals and the resulting effect on coastal eutrophication, especially Phaeocystis blooms.

TL;DR: The ocean ecosystems around the west Antarctic Peninsula and South Georgia are two of the best described regional ecosystems of the Southern Ocean and therefore provide a useful basis for developing comparative analyses of ocean ecosystems as discussed by the authors.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors used satellite and cruise survey data to analyze physical and biological characteristics in the South China Sea after the passage of the typhoon Nuri in August 2008.

TL;DR: In this article, an updated version of the fully coupled bio-physical model ECOSMO, a 3D hydrodynamic and a N(utrient)P(hytoplankton)Z(ooplp)D(etritus) model, which is now adopted to the coupled system North Sea-Baltic Sea, is presented.

TL;DR: In this paper, a numerical model based on the Regional Ocean model System (ROMS) was proposed to find out the dominant phosphate origin as well as the underlying forcing mechanism in summer algal blooms.

TL;DR: The latitudinal differences observed for multiple trophic-related factors highlight inherent distinctions in larval fish feeding ecologies, likely reflecting differences in the overall structure of planktonic food webs over large latitudinal gradients.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors investigated the sensitivity of larval transport predictions to three input parameters universally required for particle tracking in biophysical models; namely the number of particles released, the particle release depth, and the particle tracking time.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors describe an exploited continental shelf ecosystem (Gulf of Gabes) in the southern Mediterranean Sea using an Ecopath mass-balance model and assess the impacts of fishing upon it.

TL;DR: The case is made that dynamic regulatory concepts are relevant at all levels of ecosystem regulation, that elemental stoichiometry must be considered in physiological, trophodynamic and biogeochemical constructs, and that the classical notion that nutrients and nutrient stoichiometric are only regulatory for physiology when at the limiting end of the spectrum must be laid to rest.

TL;DR: The Chesapeake Bay Ecological Prediction System (CBEPS) as mentioned in this paper automatically generates daily nowcasts and three-day forecasts of several environmental variables, such as sea surface temperature and salinity, the concentrations of chlorophyll, nitrate, and dissolved oxygen, for the purpose of monitoring the Bay's ecosystem.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a comprehensive data set on concentrations of crustal elements (Al, Ca, Fe and Mg) and trace metals (Pb, Cd, Cu, Mn, Cr, Co and Ni) in ambient aerosols studied from the marine atmospheric boundary layer (MABL) of the Bay of Bengal during the period of continental outflow (January-April).

TL;DR: In this paper, an intertidal mudflat with variable meadow coverage was studied during an annual survey, which consisted in continuous high-frequency monitoring of bed altimetry, tidal elevation and waves.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model simulating the seasonal and spatial variations of microbiological water quality (expressed in terms of Escherichia coli concentrations) in rivers is developed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the authors have determined four naturally occurring radium isotope (223Ra, 224Ra, 226Ra and 228Ra) activities and nutrient concentrations in surface water, coastal groundwater and river water in the mixing zone of Laoye Lagoon to estimate the fluxes of SGD by several models.

TL;DR: It is proposed that more frequent P. noctiluca outbreaks stimulated by increasing sea surface temperature and shifts in their prey availability and composition would become, in the near future, a major cause of ecosystem shift.

TL;DR: In this paper, a model of aluminium has been developed and implemented in an Ocean General Circulation Model (NEMO-PISCES), where the internal oceanic processes are described by advection, mixing and reversible scavenging.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors trace the long-term (1969-2008) dynamics in supply of nutrients and their ratios in the pycnocline, as well as changes in intensity of the upward flow of nutrients into the euphotic zone and impact of these factors on abundance and the taxonomic structure of phytoplankton.

TL;DR: The Seneque/Riverstrahler model has been used to explore the effect of human-induced changes in drainage network morphology and land use on organic and nutrient pollutions, for the last 20 years and back to the 1890s and 1790s as mentioned in this paper.

TL;DR: In this paper, a suite of phytoplankton growth formulations with increasing complexity were compared in a simple marine ecosystem model in a 1D framework at the Bermuda Atlantic Time-series (BATS) station.

TL;DR: In this paper, the impact of atmospheric deposition on the marine ecosystem of the East Mediterranean Sea was investigated using a one-dimensional physical/biogeochemical model, and the results indicated that continuous atmospheric inputs of nutrients over several decades can maintain the anomalously high N-to-P ratio observed in the east Mediterranean seawater.

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used a single isopycnal layer to simulate the 2D propagation of the following eight principal tidal constituents: M2, S2, N2, K2 and K1, O1, P1 and Q1.

TL;DR: In this paper, a stochastic estimation method was developed to estimate a subset of biogeochemical model parameters from surface phytoplankton observations, which were tested in the context of idealised twin experiments performed with a 1/4° resolution model of the North Atlantic ocean.

TL;DR: In this paper, the role of mesoscale eddies in shaping the distribution of S. aurita and E. encrasicolus larvae along the Catalan coast was analyzed.

TL;DR: In this paper, the response of biological production and air-sea CO2 fluxes to upwelling intensification in two of the four major EBUS, namely the California Current System (California CS) and Canary current system (Canary CS), was explored.