Intensification and spatial homogenization of coastal upwelling under climate change
@article{Wang2015IntensificationAS, title={Intensification and spatial homogenization of coastal upwelling under climate change}, author={Daiwei Wang and Tarik C Gouhier and Bruce A. Menge and Auroop Ratan Ganguly}, journal={Nature}, year={2015}, volume={518}, pages={390-394} }
The timing and strength of wind-driven coastal upwelling along the eastern margins of major ocean basins regulate the productivity of critical fisheries and marine ecosystems by bringing deep and nutrient-rich waters to the sunlit surface, where photosynthesis can occur. How coastal upwelling regimes might change in a warming climate is therefore a question of vital importance. Although enhanced land–ocean differential heating due to greenhouse warming has been proposed to intensify coastal…
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