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Remote Sensing Of The Ne Pacific: Retrospective And Concurrent Time Series Analysis Using Multiple Sensors On Multiple Scales, Andrew C. Thomas

University of Maine Office of Research Administration: Grant Reports

A significant number of physical and biological variables covary within and between the boundary currents of the subarctic and subtropical gyres in the NE Pacific Ocean. These (summarized in US GLOBEC Reports 17, 11 and 7) include the strength of the transports, surface temperatures, zooplankton biomass and the catch of commercially important fishes. Time scales range from individual events to interdecadal regime shifts. The mechanisms by which these physical and biological fields covary are unknown, but it is postulated that the same mechanisms involved in interannual variability also affect long term climatic variability. Clarification and quantification of the mechanisms governing …