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Coupling between the open ocean and the coastal upwelling region off northwest Africa: water recirculation and offshore pumping of organic matter

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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.
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This article is published in Journal of Marine Systems.The article was published on 2005-02-01. It has received 196 citations till now. The article focuses on the topics: Upwelling & Continental shelf.

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The transition zone of the Canary Current upwelling region

TL;DR: In this article, a series of interdisciplinary field studies was conducted on the Canary Island archipelago to investigate the role of cyclonic eddies in the transport and exchange of biogenic material including fish larvae.
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Sub-regional ecosystem variability in the Canary Current upwelling

TL;DR: In this paper, a comparative exploration of the biogeographical characteristics of different sub-regions comprising the Canary Current upwelling ecosystem (CanC) is presented, and it is shown that variability in coastline configuration, shelf width, coastal upwell, nutrient fertilization, productivity, or retentive vs. dispersive physical mechanisms may help explain subregional differences in fish distributions and abundances in the CanC.
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The Canary Eddy Corridor: A major pathway for long-lived eddies in the subtropical North Atlantic

TL;DR: In this article, the authors report a new type of permanent structure in the eastern subtropical Atlantic Ocean, that they call the Canary Eddy Corridor, which is a zonal long-lived (>3 months) mesoscale eddy corridor, whose source is the flow perturbation of the Canary Current and the Trade Winds at the Canary Islands.
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The interannual variability of oceanic CO2 parameters in the northeast Atlantic subtropical gyre at the ESTOC site

TL;DR: In this paper, the long-term trends and average seasonal variability in the upper ocean inorganic carbon observations were investigated at the ESTOC Station (the European Time Series in the Canary Islands), on the basis of an existing 10-year series (1995-2004).
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Relationship between wind speed and gas exchange over the ocean

TL;DR: In this paper, the influence of variability in wind speed on the calculated gas transfer velocities and the possibility of chemical enhancement of CO2 exchange at low wind speeds over the ocean is illustrated using a quadratic dependence of gas exchange on wind speed.
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Tracers in the Sea

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Ecological Geography of the Sea

TL;DR: In this article, the authors used CZCS images to partition the Pelagic ecology of the oceans into four primary biomes: Atlantic Ocean, Indian Ocean, Pacific and Southern Ocean.
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Tracers in the Sea

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