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Coastal upwelling in a warmer future

Year: 2002

Type: article

Abstract: Coastal upwelling helps set the physical context for marine ecosystems, and upwelling zones are among the most productive regions of the global ocean. Unlike earlier models, two state‐of‐the‐art climate models exhibit little change during the next century in the magnitude and seasonality of coastal upwelling, but climate models are still probably not sufficiently developed (for example, they underestimate interdecadal variability in upwelling) to provide valid projections of this key component of the coastal environment.

Source: Geophysical Research Letters

DOI: 10.1029/2002gl016086

Authors: Philip W. Mote, Nathan J. Mantua

Institution: University of Washington

Language: English

Topic: Oceanographic and Atmospheric Processes

Subfield: Oceanography

Field: Earth and Planetary Sciences

Domain: Physical Sciences

SDGs: Life below water, Climate action

Open Access status: bronze

Funders: Joint Institute for the Study of the Atmosphere and Ocean, National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration