Sentences with phrase «coastal oceanic waters»

Not exact matches

Then that balanced system was upset and oceanic phosphorus made its way to coastal waters.

Previous studies have subjected phytoplankton to oil in laboratories to test their sensitivity and found differences in the impact on oceanic vs. coastal phytoplankton and differences when phytoplankton were in nutrient - rich or nutrient - poor water, as well as damage to some phytoplankton cells at various concentrations of oil.

ref Specifically, reducing land - based sources of pollution (nutrient runoff and sedimentation) has been identified as an important approach to address acidification in coastal waters because nutrients like phosphorus and nitrogen and land - based carbon inputs can increase the acidity of coastal and oceanic waters.

The eastern North Pacific stock of gray whales prefers shallow, coastal waters and feeds over oceanic continental shelves around the northern Bering and southern Chukchi seas between Alaska and Russia during the summer.

These alongshore stresses act in concert with the Coriolis force to drive offshore oceanic (Ekman) transport that in turn pumps deep, cold water up to the coastal margins.

The country thus influences the flow of the major water masses and results in shelf - edge currents and oceanic eddies that interact with coastal waters over the shelf, bringing oceanic water into the coastal zone.

The temperature regime is very different to onshore permafrost and deeper oceanic hydrates, and sensitive to warming of the shallow coastal waters over the ESAS.

These OMITTED / POORLY Represented processes include the following: oceanic eddies, tides, fronts, buoyancy - driven coastal and boundary currents, cold halocline, dense water plumes and convection, double diffusion, surface / bottom mixed layer, sea ice — thickness distribution, concentration, deformation, drift and export, fast ice, snow cover, melt ponds and surface albedo, atmospheric loading, clouds and fronts, ice sheets / caps and mountain glaciers, permafrost, river runoff, and air — sea ice — land interactions and coupling.