Contributions

  • Brink, Kenneth H. - Contributor
  • Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution. - Contributor

Publication

1994 - Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, [Woods Hole, Mass, Massachusetts

Language

English

Word Count

33,500 words, Guess

Page Count

134 pages

Identifiers

Alternate Titles

  • Wind-driven transport processes on the U.S. west coast.

Description

Wind-driven transport occurs on nearly all of the world's continental shelves. A workshop, open to all interested scientists, was held in Portland, Oregon, on July 14-16, 1993, to assess the need for a major interdisciplinary study, and to begin defining the relevant questions and approaches. Specific questions were posed in the areas of air-sea feedback, sources and sinks of chemicals in the euphotic zone, plankton distributions and benthic exchanges. The consensus of the entire workshop was that a CoOP study of wind-drven transport processes should be made and should take place over the continental margin adjacent to the U.S. west coast. The central question to be addressed is: What processes control the cross-margin transport of biological, chemical and geological materials in a strongly wind-driven system? Some recommendations were made for locations and measurement techniques to be used in the envisioned two-year field program.

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Series Statement

  • WHOI -- 94-20.
  • CoOP report -- no. 4.
  • Coastal ocean processes report -- no. 4.
  • WHOI (Series) -- 94-20.

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