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TI: Multi-disciplinary and Multi-platform Observations of Coastal Oceanographic Processes in Santa Monica Bay, CA
AU: * Oram, J J
EM: joram@ucla.edu
AF: Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1496 United States
AU: Hamner, W M
EM: hamner@biology.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1496 United States
AU: McWilliams, J C
EM: jcm@atmos.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1496 United States
AU: Gruber, N
EM: ngruber@igpp.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1496 United States
AU: Stolzenbach, K D
EM: stolzenb@ucla.edu
AF: Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1496 United States
AU: Nezlin, N P
EM: nezlin@biology.ucla.edu
AF: Institute of the Environment, University of California, Los Angeles, CA 90095-1496 United States
AB: Santa Monica Bay is a coastal embayment characterized by important natural resources heavily impacted by urbanization of the adjacent watershed. Conservation and management of these resources requires an understanding of the interplay between biological, geochemical, and physical processes in the bay. UCLA's Institute of the Environment conducts a multi-platform measurement program involving satellite remote sensing (chlorophyll biomass derived from SeaWiFS radiometer, sea surface temperature derived from AVHRR radiometers, anomalies of sea level derived from TOPEX/Poseidon radar-altimeter, atmospheric precipitation derived from SSM/I radiometers), boat surveys (CTD, undulating towed CTD/optical package, plankton tow, water sampler), and a recently deployed mooring (N 33 55.900, W 118 42.937; TS-String, Surface CTD, ADCP, metsystem; www.ioe.ucla.edu/mucla). These observations, complemented by high resolution computer simulations of physical and ecosystem processes using the Regional Ocean Modeling System (ROMS), are interpreted to quantify important coastal phenomena such as the residence time and eddy structure in the bay, cycling of key geochemical constituents such as nitrogen and carbon, and seasonal and interannual dynamics of phytoplankton, zooplankton, and higher trophic levels such as squid.
DE: 4855 Plankton
DE: 4894 Instruments and techniques
DE: 4512 Currents
DE: 4536 Hydrography
SC: OS
MN: 2002 Ocean Sciences Meeting