Sentences with phrase «driving coastal upwelling»

«Changes in basal melting are helping to change the properties of Antarctic bottom water, which is one component of the ocean's overturning circulation,» said author Stan Jacobs, an oceanographer at Columbia University's Lamont - Doherty Earth Observatory in Palisades, N.Y. «In some areas it also impacts ecosystems by driving coastal upwelling, which brings up micronutrients like iron that fuel persistent plankton blooms in the summer.»

The wind driven coastal upwellings are a tiny fraction of the ocean surface and volume.

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The winds drove westward Ekman transport, which induced a geostrophic northward coastal current (20 cm / s) off the western coast of Wilhelmina Bay and upwelling at its southern and eastern margins.

The coastal wind driven upwellings are well known and they drive a good proportion of the world's shipping industry.

These include eastern boundary current upwelling systems such as those off the U.S. west coast along coastal California, Oregon and Washington, deep - sea and subsurface oxygen minimum zones, and coastal waters that are already experiencing excess nutrient levels (eutrophication) and low dissolved oxygen (hypoxia) due to human - driven nutrient pollution from land - based activities.

Inshore of this a coastal component exhibits dynamic wind - driven upwelling, which is strongly modulated by local weather systems, resulting in short - term upwelling cycles with a periodicity of 5 — 10 days.