Physical‐biological coupling in the California Current during the 1997–99 El Niño‐La Niña Cycle
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The rapid transition from strong El Niño to strong La Niña conditions in the equatorial Pacific in 1998 was accompanied by considerable environmental variability in the southern California Current System (CCS). The evolution of this transition in the CCS is investigated based on hydrographic and biological data collected on 25 cruises over a 45‐month period (February 1996 to October 1999). The El Niño period was characterized by high steric heights and a deep nutricline in the coastal regions, which effectively limited biological production. This was followed by a period of increased cross‐shore dynamic height gradients, a significant shoaling of the nutricline, and a dramatic rebound in primary and secondary production. The observed physical and biological response in the CCS is remarkably similar to that observed in the tropical Pacific, but with a lag of several months.
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Climate events can force large, temporary changes in overall productivity or community composition.
“In some cases, a climate event can force large, temporary changes in overall productivity or community composition; these effects were seen during the large 1997-98 El Niño event [104] and the delayed upwelling in 2005 [78] in the California Current.”
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Biological and Chemical Response of the Equatorial Pacific Ocean to the 1997-98 El Niño
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Bakun, A., Black, B. A., Bograd, S. J., García-Reyes, M., Miller, A. J., Rykaczewski, R. R., & Sydeman, W. J. (2015) · Current Climate Change Reports · doi:10.1007/s40641-015-0008-4 · Cited by 470 · see citing works
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- Authors
- Bograd, S. J., & Lynn, R. J.
- Affiliations
- Scripps Institution of Oceanography (US)
- NOAA National Marine Fisheries Service (US)
- ORCID
- Bograd, Steven J.
- Venue
- Geophysical Research Letters
- Publisher
- American Geophysical Union (AGU)
- Published
- 2001-01-15
- Volume
- 28
- Issue
- 2
- Pages
- 275-278
- ISSN
- 0094-8276 (ISSN-L)
- 1944-8007
- OpenAlex
- W1966294063
- Cited by
- 106
- References
- 1
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- FWCI
- 5.16
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- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- bronze
- doi.org
- Locations
- Geophysical Research Letters (publishedVersion)
- Topics
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes
- Physical Sciences › Earth and Planetary Sciences › Oceanography › Marine and coastal ecosystems
- Physical Sciences › Environmental Science › Global and Planetary Change › Climate variability and models
- Keywords
- California Current System, El Niño, La Niña, physical-biological coupling, nutricline, steric height, primary production, secondary production, coastal upwelling
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